Vibrating Tattoos Could Function as Ringtones

By Alice Truong
Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:51 AM ET
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Nokia has filed a patent for a vibrating tattoo, theWall Street Journal reports.

According to the patent application, Nokia is proposing “a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.”

The idea is that the magnetic field would interact with the tattoo and could be employed as a ringtone of sorts — vibrating during incoming calls, when a text message is received or when the battery is running low. The Journal also notes that the patent application could manifest in a badge. Either way, the idea is to embed the phone on a person.

Such a technology has its perks: You’ll never miss another call, and people won’t have to listen to your obnoxious ringtone anymore.

Image: bgrimmni/Creative Commons

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Comment by Robert Carobene on March 22, 2012 at 9:28am: When and wear did they bring the guillotine back.I have not heard of that?

Comment by Sweettina2 on March 21, 2012 at 11:51pm: My stars....mark of the beast is at our doorstep. You got it right about the guillatine, Suz, they will certainly be using it on those that refuse to renounce God.

Comment by suzie on March 21, 2012 at 11:48pm: all that can be accomplished easily ww11 lasted exactly 6 yrs (September 1, 1939- September 2, 1945) in 25 yrs they can do it all... have a war with Iran something REALLY BIG ... they can crash the economy any time they feel like it .. one world money will be an announcement on the tv .. just like they made gold illeagal to own by a stroke of the pen.. they old saying .. "the pen is mightier than the sword"

the announcement on tv is mightier than the people who may bitch about it ...........too late!

Comment by suzie on March 21, 2012 at 11:39pm: that's why they have brought the guilliatine back to behead the people who don't take the mark.. there is much discussion about when the rapture happens christians who think they will escape torcher and the beheadings are fooling themselves. Especially american spoiled brats who never had to stand for anything of there faith! Where were they when they still had a say when they made it illegal to pray ............too late now! where were they when they made it legal to kill (murder babies in the whom) ..........too late

we were just children or not born thanks christian soldiers for standing your ground against the communist ACLU when you had opportunity .. they have failed miserably and will not escape .. we reap what we sow ..

we are the generation who are reaping the benefits of our parents failure to keep the enemy from entering the gates

Comment by Robert Carobene on March 21, 2012 at 11:32pm: I think first there has to be a big war in the middle east which I think will be the Iran war and then something big will happen! It will be horrible and may lead to World War 3 or a global financial system collapse that will then then lead to a one world currency!

Comment by suzie on March 21, 2012 at 11:27pm: Perhaps 30 yrs from 911

2001 + lets say 35yrs is

on or before the year 2036 ...maybe 2040.. i hate to do math with God but this is a guess not that far away. Many will still be alive. Wars and rumors of war .. may terrible things will happen before jesus actually comes back .. there is the 7 yr tribulation period

and they haven't even announced the new world order yet!

a wild guess

no one knows the time only the season

Comment by Robert Carobene on March 21, 2012 at 11:21pm: Well what about the Rapture? I mean they have to force everyone with the mark and no one has done that yet!

Comment by Robert Carobene on March 21, 2012 at 11:11pm: Its 1948 is a generation 70 years or what in Biblical terms?

Comment by suzie on March 21, 2012 at 11:01pm: i remember when the bar code came out... no one did a thing- every store in the whole world complied seemingly over night .. look at the "progress" IN COMMERCE they will never stop until they get what they want TOTAL CONTROL!

Verily I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things shall be fulfilled.

A generation is about 30 or 40 years.

When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."