Tech Tats Are Temporary Tattoos That Can Monitor Your Health

The tattoos could be developed to track and monitor soldier conditions in the field or find children that are lost, even allow patients who would otherwise be under hospital supervision to leave and return to their lives all while being monitored.

Dubbing it as “tech-tats”, these tattoo circuits can replace tech wearable platforms that requires constant reminder to wear them. That’s because it has electronic components, including a microcontroller and LED lights, reports Engadget.

Called Chaotic Moon, the company has previously worked on other cutting-edge technological products like drones and Bitcoin-collecting fitness tracking devices. The company says that once they’re attached anywhere on the skin, Tech Tats monitor health markers like body temperature and heart rate.

Unlike Fitbits and Jawbones and other wearable devices now on the market, Tech Tats are unobtrusive, weightless, and easily hidden under clothing. It could also function similar to Apple Pay or Samsung Pay for a variety of purchases.

Besides health purposes, there are also potential uses for banking or even military application. The temporary tattoo-like sensor keeps tab on exercise through the lactate, a substance found in perspiration that increases as a person performs more strenuous activities. The tech start-up company, Chaotic Moon Studios, has unveiled different creations, but this one is a bit more impressive than their shark punching simulators. Current testing method for lactate involves invasive blood tests while a person is exercising. “It can be underneath a flack jacket, directly on the skin to be collecting this data and being reported back”.

The biometric tattoos, unlike their Fitbit and implant kin, are applied like a temporary tattoo.

South Korean scientists are developing graphene tattoos. Yes, now Smart tattoos are all set to monitor your health. However, so far, cyberpunks have been surgically installing chips and magnets into their bodies, but rumors have started about tech-tattoos.