Last week Motorola surprised us all during the D11 when they started talking about terms that so far we had seen or heard only in science fiction movies, electronic tattoos, small digital brands that serve to identify people in the future, as if a product is treated.
Dennis Woodside, Motorola executive, explained that the objective of this revolutionary technology was to eliminate barriers of passwords when accessing our mobile devices or tablets. Just passing our electronic tattoo on them could enter the digital world.
These electronic
tattoos equipment have been developed by the MC10, a company specializing in biometric health sector, and contain flexible electronic circuits that attach to the skin of people using a rubber stamp. Initially this technology focused in its infancy for medical purposes was investigated earlier by Nokia or the government of the United States.
It is the only idea that relates technology and medicine that has happened to Motorola, the company also talked about electronic pills that would create a unique signal to reach our stomach being used to recognize the identity of the user.
Although these are just experimental ideas, the sale is not even planned in the near future; some employees of companies like Google have already begun to criticize this technology. The main problem can be attributed to this new technology is identity theft. User’s access their smart phones more than 50 times a day and having to be contentment spending your device near your electronic tattoo with all confidential information which can store would we were all much more likely to be attacked.
Revolutionary yes, but dangerous these new technologies in societies in which we live, increasingly there are more frauds and digital theft to be at all times and anywhere an access to our digital world. In the future and with heavy security these digital tattoos or identifying marks could be our identity cards, allowing us to check in at an airport, buy food or open the doors of our homes or cars.