Human User Interfaces

With all the news this week, we are seeing a whole heap of improvements in usability, with Apple devices. Even though there’s a wait. I can’t be bothered recapping all of the news this week, but I know the Apple news has answered a lot of peoples prayers. Significantly, we are still tied to external devices. Yet we microchip our pets to keep track of them. So the idea of internalised technology is not that abstract? and Effectively very mobile. It has to go where you go, ie; pacemaker, bionic ear for the deaf, etc.

As far fetched and fantastic as it seems, many people are already using humanistic converged devices. Plenty of people are “hard wired” to devices that monitor their health in various ways. It’s the hard wired factor that interests me, or in the case of the device I’m talking about, you’d have to say soft wired because it’s blood fuelled

So I know this is a concept, but it actually looks like a viable option. I am tattooed so I don’t particularly find the idea alien,

The basis of the 2×4-inch “Digital Tattoo Interface” is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen to electricity. After blood flows in from the artery to the fuel cell, it flows out again through the vein.

There are also intension’s to link the device to health monitoring software as well, so your arm will ring to alert you of the heart attack you’re currently experiencing. Do you agree that this is the ultimate convergence, are we destined to become pseudo cyborgs to satiate our mobile connectivity needs?

Still it’d be nifty to roll up your sleeve and watch some artsy black and white (or pink) film noir, on the commute to work!

Via Geekologie and Core77