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The Threat of The Borg Is Real

Dryson

Commodore
Commodore
Tech Tats Wearable Sensor for the Curious Biohacker

If you haven’t heard already, the future of wearables is going to get under your skin – literally. Implantable technology trackers may still be a distant future, but Chaotic Moon is presenting an interim option in the form of Tech Tats. These removable biosensor wearables put complicated circuitry into the form of a temporary tattoo. Before you know it, you could be wearing a Tech Tat to get diagnostics when you’re feeling ill, to monitor your fitness during a workout, or even to check in for an annual physical from the comfort of your home.
The Tech Tat circuitry is extremely thin, but it is basically laying a circuit board full of chips and sensors on your skin. Still, Tech Tats stick out less than a lot of popular wearable gadgets and fitness trackers. And since the temporary adhesive affixes to the skin, it could easily be placed under clothing or at least away from the wrist for the sake of discretion.
Tech Tats feature an ATiny85 microcontroller that serves as the brains connecting any sensors implanted in the tattoo’s circuitry. Current prototypes already include temperature sensors and ambient light sensors. In the future, Tech Tats could add on more biosensors to record vital signs like heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Electroconductive paint transmits information to the microcontroller, which stores the resulting data.
In the world of health and medicine, a Tech Tat could transmit data to an app on your mobile device over a Bluetooth Low Energy connection. Professional settings like hospitals and doctors’ offices could use Tech Tats to triage patients and get faster diagnostics. Chaotic Moon is even suggesting the Tech Tat as a possibility in the world of finance, where mobile payment solutions are creeping towards more wearable options.
Chaotic Moon is presenting society with an interim step from wearable trackers to implantable ones, but for these proposed applications, Tech Tats are a solution in themselves. The studio hasn’t announced when you can actually get a Tech Tat, but its focus on individual applications and inexpensive microcontroller suggests that Tech Tats will fall within a reasonable price range. Some day you might even buy them in bulk packages, like that box of Band-Aids that has been in your medicine cabinet for years.

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All that needs to be done create the first Borg drone is too simply use nano bots between two sensors to move the nano bots back and forth between the two points.

Once the transfer of information has been completed the system would get faster and better at sensing information back and forth between the two AI points.
 
no worries - Borgification requires an intelligent being to be transformed and on this planet those appear to be a species on the brink of extinction (at least that's the impression I get when reading the news)
 
Perhaps it's inevitable that closely integrating electronics with human sensoria to facilitate near-instant, worldwide, high-bandwidth communication and ubiquitous access to knowledge and data will result in transforming our species (actually, the affluent portion that embrace the technology) into a new form of eusocial organism - an emergent superbeing. What it would choose to do with the remnant, unmodified portion of humanity?
 
So a whole planet covered by celebrity obsessed media drugged masses.. but we already have that... :p it will all be in their brain then or whatever is left of that, I see no problem since the problem will solve itself.. no one leaves his or her basement anymore, pre programmed extinction here we come!:p
 
^depends. The tennis player is. The Swimmer died in 2009.
Judging from the list at Wikipedia. Malta, Sweden and the US seem to be the most borgified countries ;)
 
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