Uhura: Oh! that hurts!
Dr. McCoy: Oops, that's the tattoo shooter, not the flu shot. We put acid in with the inks because 'toos are supposed to hurt. Nice nudie on your arm though.
Uhura: Where is Star Fleet with that transfer I asked for?
Hey, doesn't this new technology sound like the Star Trek doctor's way of getting meds, tranquilizers, etc into bodies?
BTW, can I get the patent on tattoos with this technology, since I just thought of it?
I think one company just won a suit over Microsoft for the same kind of thinking.
Don't go trying to steal my idea. This post is date and time stamped.
Okay, HP's transmission device will be actually skin patches rather than a gunnish type thing, but the idea of painlessly getting drugs through the skin is there.
It seems it could be melded into a gun like structure.
Fire it up, Bones.
Excerpt Register report:
HP has come up with a new use for its inkjet technology: you can use it to give people inkjections (see what we did there?).
The firm has signed a deal with Irish medical firm Crospon to develop a "skin patch" complete with teeny-tiny needles for controlled, and painless, delivery of a variety of drugs.