Motorola wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat

By Steve Dent posted Nov 7th, 2013 at 10:17 AM

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.

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

What appears to be the full text of the patent application is here:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=6&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%2820131107.PD.+AND+Motorola.AS.%29&OS=PD/20131107+AND+AN/Motorola&RS=%28PD/20131107+AND+AN/Motorola%29

maybe Motorola are getting the tech from Area 51 and just covering all bases.

Probably finish up causing CANCER of the Larynx!!

Probably finish up causing CANCER of the Larynx!!

Not impossible!

What next ?

Resistance is futile

Next is a receiver tattooed onto your ear canal.

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a tranceiver and power supply

TRANCEIVER this implies a transmit and recieve capability, with a POWER SUPPLY, the whole concept knows no boundries given nano tech could be coming up in the future

Crapple probably already has a patent to put a tattoo on the ar$e for ringtones.