Google's Motorola division wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat

[onehandle]

Okay, where to start on this one? Simply put, Motorola has applied for a patent of a microphone with a tranceiver and power supply that is designed to be tattooed onto your throat. The idea is to capture vibrations directly from your larynx in order to cut out background noise -- while eliminating something else you could lose, we imagine. The skin-borne device could communicate with your handset or other portable device by Bluetooth, NFC or other wireless protocols and would pack a battery that "may or may not be rechargeable." The patent adds that the technology could also be applied to "other animals," so we're a bit concerned that Motorola is taking its wearable schemes in the wrong direction.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/07/motorola-throat-tattoo-microphone

[gopiscrap]

1. Fuck that and fuck all corporations

I refuse to wear any corporate logo..all private for profit business is evil as far as I am concerned!

[snooper2]

3. I'm sure there will be style options...

You could get your favorite cat or some random Chinese letters or whatever floats your boat LOL


Did you build your own car by the way?

[Blue_Tires]

2. Jealous that apple didn't think of it first?

[bemildred]

4. I imagine upgrades could get tricky. nt

[randome]

6. Product recalls, too.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[pscot]

5. They're insane

Asshole too.

[DetlefK]

7. Too many flaws with design, but good start.

How to change the battery?
How to switch it off?
How to prevent it from being snooped on?

I would prefer more something like this: A short-range-communicator, including the abovementioned upgrades, tattooed on the wrist. And it's only active when you keep pressing the "on"-switch with either the tip of either your finger or your nose. Connect a bunch of those to a server with voice-recognition-software and you have instant-messaging with anybody in the building.

[niyad]

8. PLEASE tell me that this is actually from the Onion!!

[donco]

9. YEAH!

And a NSA tat on the other side.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. 25 years ago a game called cyberpunk posited this

I should go find the copy, dusty as hell, will be a guide to the future.

[Dreamer Tatum]

11. Why, that's MADNESS!

Who would ever put a corporate logo on their skin?