Tech

These tech tattoos will let you become a cyborg without the usual commitment

Danielle Muoio

2015-11-26T16:13:56Z

Chaotic Moon, a mobile software design company, is designing a line of wearable tattoos called Techtats, which can perform a variety of tasks from monitoring your health to dimming the lights.

It's unclear when the tattoos will be available for purchase — Chaotic Moon CEO Ben Lamm only told Tech Insider that they're working to release them to the public "as soon as possible."

But the easily removable devices could prove an interesting way to step into "cyborgism" without the commitment that usually comes with it.

Here's how the wearable devices work:

Techtats use electric paint, tiny chips, and sensors to create a circuit that can live on your skin. They are applied to your skin just like any other temporary tattoo.

Right now, they only come with temperature and ambient light sensors. The temperature sensor comes in handy when your sick and want to track a fever. Ambient light sensors could control lights in your house, like dimming them in a room as you leave it.

The ambient light sensors show how tech tattoos could eventually be used to control your home in other ways. Chaotic Moon also has plans to use them to collect body analytics as you work out.

You can read more about that here.

The tech tattoos use bluetooth to communicate with your phone or other technology, like your lights. This allows it to deliver information, like your current temperature, to the corresponding tech tattoo app.

You can read more about that here.

"The cool thing is that these devices are on the skin, not under it. People tend to get appropriately creeped out by implantable devices. With Techtats, you get all the functionality of those devices, without the permanence," CEO Ben Lamm said.

Techtats could be an interesting way to explore cyborgism without altering your body. This real-life cyborg implanted an antenna in his head so he can hear color.

You can read more about that here.

Chaotic Moon hasn't put a price on Techtats yet, but is aiming to make them cheap so people can buy them the same way they would a box of bandaids, Lamm said.

Learn more about Techtats here.

Wearables