Chances are that you’ve probably unlocked your smartphone(s) a few gazillion times till date. Out of those umpteen times, you’re quite probable to have gotten the pin/pattern/facial recognition lock wrong at least a few 100 times, if not 1000’s of times! Moreover, our phones seem to love Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong“) especially when we actually need the little buggers!
Seems like some volks over at Motorola ATAP and VivaLnk seemed to have gotten pretty annoyed with this seemingly small problem, resulting in the genesis of the Digital Tattoo – a small, wearable Tattoo which unlocks your phone as soon as it brought within a radius of 10mm! Still don’t believe me ? Check it out yourself –
A pretty nifty concept and gadget! Going by VivaLnk’s calculations, every user can, on average, save 2.3 seconds every time they unlock their phones using VivaLnk’s new Digital Tattos. On first glance, these nickel-sized tattoos blend in quite well on a user’s hands.
Let’s have a look at the specs of the much-touted Digital Tattoo :
- Life Time of each Tattoo – About 5 days for each Digital Tattoo
- Shapes Available – Only a circular shape with a vortex design currently, though VivaLnk claim to be working on other designs as well.
- Diameter of Tattoo – 24.13mm
- 160 micrometres in Thickness
- Unlock Radius – 10mm (although a tap is the preferred method, even bringing the smartphone within the radius shall unlock it)
- Compatible Smartphones – Only Moto X currently
- Digital Tattoos provided – 10 Tattoos provided in a single pack.
- Cost for 1 pack – $ 9.99
- Max possible Pairings – 5
- For a single Moto X
Thus, 10 tattoos in a pack roughly implies a month’s provisions for faster, simpler and easier unlocking of your personal identity a.k.a. your smartphone. However, one extremely useful feature of the Tattoo is that it can be attached to any surface apart from your hand as well. In fact, VivaLnk claim that if you stick it, for example, on your car’s dashboard, each individual tattoo will also last much longer.
Now, if one actually examines closely, the Digital Tattoos seem to perform this incredible piece of “magic” due to the NFC technology, which is also provided in the aforementioned Moto X. Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is a relatively new short-range and wireless technology, predominantly present only in the higher echelons of the phone hierarchy, which enables quick and wireless exchange of information between the NFC-enabled devices.
Below are the instructions for perusing the Digital Tattoos, should you luckily manage to lay your hands on the same!
