Mumbai, Nov 26(AZINS) A company called Chaotic Moon Studios has recently unveiled a series of ‘bio-wearables’ called TechTats. Resembling conventional tattoos, they embed electronics and sensors that are aimed at facilitating numerous applications in the medical, healthcare and financial spaces.

For example, instead of visiting a doctor each year for a physical examination, these e-tattoos could be temporarily applied on a person’s arm where it monitors vital biometrics, as would happen in a conventional medical examination. It could then send the various findings to a doctor wirelessly via the user’s smartphone.

The applications also extend beyond physical examinations--it can theoretically be used to detect early signs of an oncoming illness by measuring vital signs including heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure, taking the guesswork out of preempting a bout of sickness.

Then there are use cases in the banking space--these tech tattoos could be encoded with personal banking and unique user information, enabling functionality similar to what NFC enabled phones do these days. Except the phones won’t be required--all that would needed is to touch the tattoo to a compatible reader and the user would be able to authenticate and exchange information seamlessly.

The tattoos work using conductive paint that makes the electric connections between the various sensors, battery and transmitting components. While it is still in proof of concept stage (and it appears so with the tattoos and electronic components appearing bulkier than what would warrant being called a tattoo,) it could open numerous avenues of convenience and functionality in spaces as diverse as healthcare and personal data security.