Designing The Ultimate End-Times User/Machine Interface: The DNA Tattoo Or "Dattoo" That Will Be Printed On The User's Skin And Identify Them Via Their DNA
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Designing
The Ultimate End-Times User/Machine Interface:
The DNA Tattoo Or "Dattoo" That Will
Be
Printed On The User's Skin And Identify Them
Via Their DNA
Five years ago, Frog Design founder Hartmut
Esslinger envisioned a technology that
“could influence notions of community,
identity, and connectivity with minimal impact
on the physical environment.” Using an
online design portal, users would select and
try out a customized electronic processing
device that they would then print onto their
own skin. The DNA Tattoo, or Dattoo, could
include printable input/output tools such as a
camera, microphone, or laser-loudspeaker –
it would be up to the user, as would the
Dattoo’s aesthetics. Most intriguingly, it
would capture its wearer’s DNA, to ensure an
intimate user/machine relationship. Conceived
for the 2005 Forrester Consumer Forum, the
Dattoo was a response to the still-increasing
trend of self-expression through connectivity
technology – in a sense, you could call it
the ultimate smart phone skin. The idea was to
“realize a state of constant, seamless
connectivity and computability requir[ing] the
convergence of technology and self.” This
meant that the body itself would need to
become the interface, and would supply the
required energy. Because Dattoos would largely
replace three-dimensional tools such as smart
phones or laptops, the environment would be
spared the costs of producing, transporting
and disposing of those items.