Sounds too good indeed!! That is a brilliant cool Idea!! ![]()
Coming back to the cold reality, though, we would face 2 main issues:
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Skin is too “conductive” for it to work without some tweaks (yep, already mentioned, so will skip)
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Tattooing is a different process of printing:
When we print something, we deposit layers of ink on top of each other on a 2D plane. This helps make sure that the end result is a continuous line, so it can be used as a conductive line.
Now Tattooing is slightly different. What we see in the end is almost an optic illusion.
Instead of depositing ink in a 2D linear way, when we tattoo we end up with a loose 3D arrangement.
We deposit each microscopic droplet of ink at a “random Z-Axis” value, so even if we discard skin’s conductivity, the connection between the particles of in generated on a 2D printing process would be lost on a tattooing process. ![]()
Yet I do love your Idea! and maybe there is a way to circumvent both of the above issues! (+ plasticity), especially since they are intertwined to some degree.
Problem there is that once you stick an NFC tag onto human skin… it just doesn’t work anymore. ![]()
Similar thing as when you stick it on metal.
Too conductive a surface causing “interference” ![]()
So you would need to address it in a similar way as metal-sticking NFC tags: an insulation layer in between!
Yet, then you’ll have a bumping sticker, which won’t last on someone’s skin for more than 15 minutes (especially in events where it will be accidentally scrapped off) ![]()