alocispepraluger102 Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 My link :rolleyes: :rolleyes: By Ben Rooney A magnetic vibrating tattoo has to be one of the strangest patent applications in quite a while, but Finnish phone giant Nokia has filed a U.S. patent for just that. According to the patent application, Nokia is proposing “a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.” Or to put it another way, a vibrating tattoo. That magnetic field would interact with the tattoo, causing it to vibrate in a certain way. Nokia’s thinking is that in much the same way that you can have different ring tones for different callers, so too a future phone could emit a different magnetic field depending who is calling, or if your battery is running low, or you receive an SMS, for example. It doesn’t have to be a tattoo; the application does talk about just a badge, but it is clear that some thought has been given to actually embedding this thing. There is a lot of talk about using “ink enriched by ferromagnetic or paramagnetic compounds” and how these would be applied. Why? The application doesn’t specify, but you could imagine situations were it is either very quiet, or conversely very noisy, so some alternative form of altering system could be used, although quite why just vibrating the phone itself isn’t enough… Hat tip to Unwired View for spotting this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) I guess they're trying to make up for all the phone business they've lost over the years. Edited March 21, 2012 by Pete C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted March 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 I guess they're trying to make up for all the phone business they've lost over the years. :blink: :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 Really smart. Wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 By Ben Rooney Are you sure his name's not Ben Wa? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted March 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) My link hopefully, apple won't acquire this technology. we'll be burned alive. :party: :party: Edited March 22, 2012 by alocispepraluger102 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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