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The Illustrated Man: How LED Tattoos Could Make Your Skin a Screen

Friday, November 20, 2009

The title character of Ray Bradbury's book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.

New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). Researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. Alread...


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