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Tue. 03/02 - Light-Up Tattoos For You and Your Avocado

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Scientists have created light-up OLED tattoos that could tell you when to put on sunscreen or when your avocados have gone bad. The Twitter account tracking Geneva Convention violations in video games. And good news: scientists have confirmed that all of us suck at ending conversations with each other. Sponsors: Mint Mobile, Get a new wireless plan for just $15 a month mintmobile.com/kottke Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/GOODNEWS Links: Scientists Invent Light-Up OLED Tattoos (Gizmodo) Light-emitting tattoo engineered for the first time (University College London News) Sharp needles for the Cold War: Yes, some kids got tattooed with their blood type (Washington Post) Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record (Rice News)  False claim: Bill Gates wants to microchip people; Anthony Fauci wants people to carry vaccination certificates (Reuters) The Twitter Account Tracking Geneva Conventions Violations in Video Games (Vice) Can You Pet the Dog? (@CanYouPetTheDog) People Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up—or Keep Talking, Science Confirms (Scientific American) Dr. Seuss: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Stuff You Should Know)  6 Dr. Seuss Books With Racist Imagery Pulled From Printing (Vulture)  Just how racist is children’s literature? The author of ‘Was the Cat in the Hat Black?’ explains. (Washington Post) How to 'Read Across America' Without Dr. Seuss (Life Hacker) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.3

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

Scientists have created light-up OLED tattoos that could tell you when to put on sunscreen

0:48.3

or when your avocados have gone bad.

0:52.3

The Twitter account tracking Geneva Convention violations in video games.

0:58.2

And good news, scientists have confirmed that all of us suck at ending conversations with each other.

1:05.5

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:11.0

A team of scientists in Europe have created what they say is the first light-emitting tattoo

1:17.9

using OLED-based technology, which is like the kind used in newer televisions and

1:23.8

smartphones, especially the folding kind.

1:26.9

And while, of course, this sounds totally awesome,

1:29.4

if a bit frightening, the team mostly propose practical uses, like alerting an athlete when

1:35.4

they're dehydrated, or indicating when someone should get out of the sun to avoid getting

1:40.2

a sunburn. Tattoos for medical use are not unprecedented. I know a couple of people who have

1:46.6

replaced their medical bracelets for conditions like diabetes with permanent tattoos on their wrists,

1:52.4

and radiation therapy often tattoos small black dots on cancer patients' skin to use as reference

1:59.0

marks for the machines, and a handful of counties in the U.S.

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