[Carlhole]

Wired

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he title character of Ray Bradbury’s book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.

New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). Researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. Already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry LEDs, turning your skin into a screen.

The silk substrate onto which the chips are mounted eventually dissolves away inside the body, leaving just the electronics behind. The silicon chips are around the length of a small grain of rice — about 1 millimeter, and just 250 nanometers thick. The sheet of silk will keep them in place, molding to the shape of the skin when saline solution is added.

These displays could be hooked up to any kind of electronic device, also inside the body...

[DomusAlbion]

That ad was totally creepy. Yuck!

[UncleRay]

A real life "illustrated man" , I can't wait to see it!
Probably show up in porno first or as a tramp-stamp-lamp
Ray

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UncleRay', 'A') real life "illustrated man" , I can't wait to see it!
Probably show up in porno first or as a tramp-stamp-lamp
Ray

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')o when a hottie walks by on the beach I could always turn over and hide it. (And let the sand be my secret beach lover ) No privacy now.

Dude. I don't need to advertise my horn with an electronic tattoo.

[POAlex]

Yes, very weird.