June 3, 2013 at 11:13Google is working on cyberpunk stuff
Former director of the agency DARPA Regina Dugan (Regina Dugan) now heads special projects department of Motorola; at the D11 conference held by AllThingsD, she showed some interesting gadgets that are still far from the real commercial embodiment, but they can still give an idea of the possible plans of Google.
The electronic tattoo BioStamp manufactured by MC10 , with which Motorola cooperates, is a thin silicone strip with flexible electronics imprinted in it - photo detectors, temperature sensors, LED-matrix and more. The complexity and miniature of the device, which is glued to the skin of the owner, can be judged by the photo:
Although the original purpose of the MC10 development was its medical purpose - monitoring various parameters of the patient’s body - Motorola plans to use BioStamp as a portable means of authentication and data storage. In other words, in the form of a password that is almost impossible to forget or lose. Regina herself is probably already using the development of her department: The
second project shown is even “closer to the body”. This is an “electronic tablet” that can be swallowed and which will generate a special 18-bit signal, which will also be used for authentication. The tablet works for about 30 days from the acid component of the owner’s gastric juice and, as Regina says, does not present any problems for a person. What happens to the device inside after the specified period is not reported.
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The electronic tattoo BioStamp manufactured by MC10 , with which Motorola cooperates, is a thin silicone strip with flexible electronics imprinted in it - photo detectors, temperature sensors, LED-matrix and more. The complexity and miniature of the device, which is glued to the skin of the owner, can be judged by the photo:
Although the original purpose of the MC10 development was its medical purpose - monitoring various parameters of the patient’s body - Motorola plans to use BioStamp as a portable means of authentication and data storage. In other words, in the form of a password that is almost impossible to forget or lose. Regina herself is probably already using the development of her department: The
second project shown is even “closer to the body”. This is an “electronic tablet” that can be swallowed and which will generate a special 18-bit signal, which will also be used for authentication. The tablet works for about 30 days from the acid component of the owner’s gastric juice and, as Regina says, does not present any problems for a person. What happens to the device inside after the specified period is not reported.
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