The unadorned

“Briar Rabbit, I threw a pencil at a neighbor boy when I was a kid, and it stuck in his leg. Boy, did I get into trouble. Sorry, but you deserved it.”

“Jeepers! One would think that you guys were actually hurt by being called 'unadorned' or something. Just so you know, it wasn't meant to be an insult... it was simply the most concise word I could think of to describe those who feel no desire to decorate their bodies either temporarily(piercings) or permanently(tattoos). Cripies!”

“oh, all of you pierced folks are SO "hole-ier than thou"!”

“I have no piercing, but I do have spots.”

“ROFL @ you Raddy!! That was a good one.... ;->”

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The Illustrated Man: How LED Tattoos Could Make Your Skin a Screen
by Charlie Sorrel November 20, 2009 | 9:39 am | Categories: R&D and Inventions

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. Already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry LEDs, turning your skin into a screen.

The silk substrate onto which the chips are mounted eventually dissolves away inside the body, leaving just the electronics behind. The silicon chips are around the length of a small grain of rice — about 1 millimeter, and just 250 nanometers thick. The sheet of silk will keep them in place, molding to the shape of the skin when saline solution is added.

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Tie it in to your iPhone-iPod-GPS.... display maps? radar loops? watch a movie?

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“I'm going to get my Johnson done up like a barber pole with those.”

“Hell Yeah.”