Tech Tats: The Future of Wearables?

A forlorn girl sits at the bottom of a staircase in her household. An adult comes by with a small plastic case, opening it to reveal a rectangle sheet. The adult applies the sheet to the girl’s arm and holds a cloth over it. The cloth is pulled away and a small circuit board-like array with glowing green dots is stuck to the girl’s deltoid. The adult pulls out her smartphone, where the girl’s vitals are displayed. “Rather than going to the doctor once a year to get your physical, this Tech Tattoo can be something that you just put on your body once a year and it monitors everything that

they would do in a physical and sends that to your doctor, and if there’s an issue, they could call you,” said Eric Schneider, a creative technologist with Chaotic Moon, the developer of Tech Tats, in a video.
“It can look at early signs of fever, your vital signs, heartrate, everything that it needs to look at to notify you that you’re getting sick, or your child is getting sick.” According to Vice’s Motherboard, the tattoo uses electroconductive paint to transfer data from temperature sensors to an ATiny85 microcontroller. While the focus is currently on the medical field, Schneider floats the idea of using the Tech Tat as a way to revolutionize the banking industry. Rather than carrying wallets around, credit cards and identification information can be stored right on one’s skin. Speaking with TechCrunch, Chaotic Moon CEO Ben Lamm said, “The future of wearables is biowearables.” He added that the company is in talks with partners to bring Tech Tats to market. Chaotic Moon is a software company based in Austin, Texas.