Motorola wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat

[Maestro]

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/

[Maestro]

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

[thaicbr]

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

[Torrens54]

Probably finish up causing CANCER of the Larynx!!

[Longtooth]

Probably finish up causing CANCER of the Larynx!!

Not impossible!

[redcardave]

What next ?

[HAL9000]

Resistance is futile

[Shurup]

Next is a receiver tattooed onto your ear canal.

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[maddas]

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

[JoeThePoster]

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