Googles Newest Creepy Invention: A Lie Detector Throat TattooMelissa Melton Wait for it An electronic lie detector throat tattoo. I wish I was just joking. Google subsidiary Motorola filed U.S. patent application #20130297301 for the nanotechnology entitled, Coupling an Electronic Skin Tattoo to a Mobile Communication Device on November 7, 2013. It begins: A system and method provides auxiliary voice input to a mobile communication device (MCD). The system comprises an electronic skin tattoo capable of being applied to a throat region of a body. The electronic skin tattoo can include an embedded microphone; a transceiver for enabling wireless communication with the MCD; and a power supply configured to receive energizing signals from a personal area network associated with the MCD. A controller is communicatively coupled to the power supply. The controller can be configured to receive a signal from the MCD to initiate reception of an audio stream picked up from the throat region of the body for subsequent audio detection by the MCD under an improved signal-to-noise ratio than without the employment of the electronic skin tattoo. Mr. Schmidt, consider the creepy line officially crossed. First, theres the fact that whoever controls the tattoo can send the signals it generates to all kinds of mobile devices: Controller 101 of electronic tattoo 110 can be configured to execute programs or instructions to enable communicative coupling of the electronic tattoo to external electronic devices such as a smartphone, a gaming device, a tablet computer, a wearable computer, for example. Obviously based on this description, the controller doesnt necessarily have to mean the person wearing the tattoo. Further, it can single certain people out in a group setting: The throat microphone of electronic skin tattoo 200 can have its own identification and be selectable in a group setting, for example, where multiple users are wearing an electronic skin tattoo 200. Even if thats not supposed to be something in a dystopic transhumanist screenplay written by a Ray Kurzweil stalker, just thinking about a group of people walking around wearing electronic throat tattoos that can be remotely controlled to send data to portable devices is admittedlyhave I used the adjective creepy yet? Next theres the express mention that the tattoo can also be applied to animals: The electronic tattoo 110 can comprise audio circuitry 103 that enables reception of acoustic signals from a persons throat when the electronic tattoo 110 is applied to a throat region of a body. Here it is contemplated that the electronic tattoo 110 can also be applied to an animal as well. Okay, great, but why exactly are they contemplating that? Hey kids, time to record your dog Sparky and send it to your Xbox! But by far, the optional special feature that wins the magical Google Creepfest of the Day Award is the part where the tattoo may be used as a high-tech lie detector: Optionally, the electronic skin tattoo 200 can further include a galvanic skin response detector to detect skin resistance of a user. It is contemplated that a user that may be nervous or engaging in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a more confident, truth telling individual. [emphasis added] Yep. Google just gets creepier and creepier every day. Billionaire Bill Gates, a creeper who also forked over a $1.1 million grant that would put galvanic skin response bracelets on school kids to measure their engagement, would be proud. Never mind that lie detector tests can be easily beaten and there are even websites out there withinstructions on how to do it. This is about as lame as the Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) $900 million team of Behavior Detection Officers who are supposedly trained to spot bad guys at Americas airports based on the hardcore, airtight evidence that is a human facial expression. Because, as everyone knows, nobody has any visible emotions whatsoever at the airport. (Also, this may come as a shock, but apparently the Government Accountability Office has determined that Behavior Detection Officers arent effective, either.) This isnt even the first creepy tattoo that some have likened to the Biblical Mark of the Beast coming out of Motorola. Former DARPA head (thats the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the also creepy research and development arm of the Department of Defense) Regina Dugan, who currently works as Motorolas head of special projects has already created electronic tattoos in addition to stomach acid-powered pills, both of which can literally authenticate a person like a password would (you know, in case you were still wondering what to get grandma for Christmas this year). Its already bad enough Google created the privacy nightmare known as Google Glass, which sadly, even Michael Chertoff you know, the guy behind those oh-so-enjoyable naked body scanners the TSA ogles us through at our airports well even he said there were numerous privacy concerns there. Actually, he equated the video camera-equipped eyeglasses to millions of Americans walking around with spy drones on their heads. Cant wait to see the commercial for these throat tattoos, by the way. Im sure it wont be, you know, creepy or anything. Contributed by Melissa Melton of The Daily Sheeple. Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 