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Motorola wants to tattoo a mic on your throat

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Apple patented iWatch name. Samsung patented metal body for smartphones. And guess what Motorola has patented now? A technology that tattoos a microphone on your throat, complete with power supply, antenna, receiver and even an optional display!

According to the patent application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, this tattoo on the throat will act as a standard microphone that will pair with mobile devices over Bluetooth, NFC and ZigBee networks. The microphone will pick up vibrations straight from the larynx (or voice box in layman's terms) in the throat, thus eliminating the background noise that many calls suffer from and make for clearer voice quality during calls.

Motorola's patent filing says: "The electronic skin tattoo is capable of receiving an initialization signal at the controller and from the MCD (mobile communication device) to initiate reception of an audio stream picked up from the throat region of the body for subsequent audio detection by the MCD under an improved signal-to-noise ratio than without employing the electronic skin tattoo."

The filing says that the tattoo can be applied on animals as well and can be embedded into a collar or band (both flexible and stiff) that is worn around the neck.

And that's not all. Motorola's throat tattoo will double up as a lie detector too!

The patent filing says: "Optionally, the electronic skin tattoo 200 can further include a galvanic skin response detector to detect skin resistance of a user. It is contemplated that a user that may be nervous or engaged in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a more confident, truth telling individual."

This is certainly one of the most unique ways of tapping into the world of wearable computing, which is witnessing a huge interest, thanks to Samsung and Sony's smartwatches and Google Glass.

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HTC One successor’s images, features leaked

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According to Chinese website ePrice, the upcoming HTC smartphone is codenamed M8 (the One was called M7 when it was being developed). The leaked images of the device show that it will follow the same design language as its predecessor, but will be thinner and have more rounded edges.

The handset will also get a fingerprint scanner on the back, though it will be smaller than the one used in the One Max phablet and will be placed above the camera.

The website reports that HTC M8 will have 5-inch or 5.2-inch display with 2K (2048x1080p) resolution and run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.2GHz. Though the Android version to be used in the smartphone is not yet known, it is expected to come preloaded with the HTC Sense 6.0 UI. The device is said to have 3GB RAM and will hit the markets in early 2014.

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Motorola wants to tattoo a mic on your throat[/size]

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Apple patented iWatch name. Samsung patented metal body for smartphones. And guess what [/size]Motorola has patented now? A technology that tattoos a microphone on your throat, complete with power supply, antenna, receiver and even an optional display![/size]

According to the patent application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, this tattoo on the throat will act as a standard microphone that will pair with mobile devices over Bluetooth, NFC and ZigBee networks. The microphone will pick up vibrations straight from the larynx (or voice box in layman's terms) in the throat, thus eliminating the background noise that many calls suffer from and make for clearer voice quality during calls.[/size]Motorola's patent filing says: "The electronic skin tattoo is capable of receiving an initialization signal at the controller and from the MCD (mobile communication device) to initiate reception of an audio stream picked up from the throat region of the body for subsequent audio detection by the MCD under an improved signal-to-noise ratio than without employing the electronic skin tattoo."[/size]The filing says that the tattoo can be applied on animals as well and can be embedded into a collar or band (both flexible and stiff) that is worn around the neck.[/size]And that's not all. Motorola's [/size]throat tattoo will double up as a lie detector too![/size]The patent filing says: "Optionally, the electronic skin tattoo 200 can further include a galvanic skin response detector to detect skin resistance of a user. It is contemplated that a user that may be nervous or engaged in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a more confident, truth telling individual."[/size]This is certainly one of the most unique ways of tapping into the world of wearable computing, which is witnessing a huge interest, thanks to Samsung and Sony's smartwatches and Google Glass.[/size]

I have always dreamt of this idea, but never thought this would come so soon.

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Motorola wants to tattoo a mic on your throat

How about NOOOO????

[n_iceman 97]

°°Tapatalked this from my phone°°

[n_iceman 97]

Samsung working on 3-sided screen phone / bendable touchscreens / foldable displays + Apple is working on curved screen smartwatch

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Samsung, which launched the world's first smartphone with a curved screen last month, is now reportedly developing a smartphone with a wraparound screen.

The screen of this phone wraps around the edges so users can view messages while viewing from an angle and each side of the display works independently, according to a Bloombergreport.

The South Korean manufacturer's wraparound screen smartphone would be using an upgraded version of its Youm technology, which was showcased in January this year. This display technology is also used in Galaxy Round, the company's only curved screen smartphone.

Bloomberg's report, citing two sources close to the development, said: "The display may be used in the S or Note series of premium handsets or may be the first in a new line."

However, the report was unclear about the launch date of the device.Samsung doesn't have a specific release date for the new device, but the handset is more likely to come out during the second half of next year.

Samsung has already revealed its roadmap for smartphones, saying it will launch handsets with bendable touchscreens next year and models with foldable displays in late 2015 or 2016.

Other companies are also working on new display technologies to compete in the booming smartphone market. Soon after Samsung launched the world's first handset with a curved screen, LG had launched a similar smartphone, named G Flex.

Apple too is reported to be planning a curved screen iPhone next year that may feature a larger display than its earlier variants. Apple is also said to be working on a curved screen smartwatch.

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Interesting concept and product. Hope they will soon accommodate for chip based cards.

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^ Chip based cards can never be accomodated in COIN or the 2-3 identical products in the market because Chip & Pin cards keep encrypted keys on board and they can not be copied like a Magstripe card.

This is one of the key problems with Coin. Other identical products like Geode etc have flopped mainly because simple magstripe credit/debit cards are only prevalent in US while the rest of the world including Europe have shifted to, or are shifting to, Chip & Pin cards.

Even in India RBI has mandated out the magstripe cards and after a few extensions all credit card terminals / POS machines will be dip (ie chip) and not swipe ones. Even US is now started shifting to Chip cards though magstripe is expected to be in parallel use for another 1-2 years.

So Coin which is launching mid of NEXT year will have just 1 year before it becomes useless. Or it can be used only for Loyalty Cards etc.

Further, all CHIP cards are technical capable of have multiple cards on them (they have segregated protected memory areas called pouches and some banks with Chip cards already allow super markets or cash card etc companies to use a pouch for some payment. So if consumers seem to like having all cards in one device the chip cards will start having multiple cards.

Off course the rivalry between banks will spoil this for some years but if some non banking / neutral company launches a Chip & Pin card and lets all banks load their cards on to it then it can be a much better option than Coin and similar products.

On top of that with Google introducing HCE (host card emulation) in Kitkat / Android 4.4, google wallet as well as any other app can do transactions without requiring a secure element (which was held back by the Telecom companies in US as it's usually put inside the SIM card) and Apple and iOS both are expected to start using BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) for passbook and wallet soon.

BLE has certain technical advantages like not requiring the physical tap like NFC readers, better encryption etc but the most important advantage is a practical one - few phones come with NFC but within 6 months ALL bluetooth chips will have BLE (currently apple iphone 4S onwards have BLE or BT4 while Samsung S3 onwards and Nexus 4 onwards have BLE. though BLE was only enabled in Android from 4.3, but samsung had their own drivers which were being used in S3/S4 before 4.3)