What is an electronic tattoo? Based on the phrasing in this article I can't determine if this is a wearable device that magnitizes to some weird tattoo or the device is the "tattoo"
Looks like you're putting a super thin layer of graphene on the skin, here's a tweet I found from one of the people working on this mentioned in the article.
I'm sure parts of the body mod/biohacking community are already working on it. People are already doing things like embedding RFID into their hands.
When I read the headline I thought they had somehow managed to get an actual tattoo to respond to blood pressure changes through the pressure itself, similar to how the cells in Octopi change colour.
What colour is your tattoo? I was hearing that red ink can especially be a source of these kinds of skin problems because of the presence of small amounts of mercury in it [1]
Reminds me I went to a dairy the other week where chipped cows trigger feeding and milking bots for detailed monitoring, dietary microadjustments, etc. I’ll see if there’s info worth posting.
Livestock seems like it would be the place to start with permanent medical data implants, including batteries and a computer.
