Flash Tattoo Watch 02

Posted on by scott

The realization of Uglies technology continues!

First, engineers at the University of Washington have developed an eyescreen-like contact lens:

linza1.jpg
Thanks to Erin-la for this catch!

In other news, howzabout some blood-powered flash tattoos?

tattoodisplay.jpg
Thanks to Jade Lennox and Temvald for kicking this to me!

This subcutaneous digital display uses the sugar in your blood and turns it into the electricity it needs to run. (And it’s Bluetooth compatible.) The article is a bit unclear about what stage this gadget’s at. The photo caption says the it’s being demonstrated, but the article says, “just a concept.” Well, “concept cars” are prototypes . . .

Anyway, it’s sort of like the flash tattoos in Uglies, because it monitors your bio-signs. Not your heartbeat in this case, but your blood chemistry. Seems to me that if it could control its own energy use, it would be great for diabetics.

If you read the articles for both these devices, they both mention cell phone applications. Like, dude, that is so 1997.

301 thoughts on “Flash Tattoo Watch 02”

  1. I want to know what the exact meaning of ‘icy’ is.

    clique would be the “Crims” How long did they survive after the lesions were cured.

    Hah! I think I got first!!!

  4. Okay, I got rid of the slang request. I’m going to do a separate post for that. (If you don’t know what this means, ignore it!)

    -scott

  7. wow that is so awsome very icy but how do you see through those contact lenses?
    and yippie you posted

  8. Woah. it’s real, all this stuff is… Scott-sama is going to be like that man who wrote a novel about a guy riding a rocket to the moon a century before it actually happened.

    technology is amazing. i’ll try keeping a watch up for flash tatoos myself, but i’m not so good at spotting these kinds of things.

    Because I’d totally make the Top 100. 😉

    PS: 8th post! triple digits! all right!!!!

  10. i cant believe your previous post has like 2000 posts. eek.

    but those gadgets you mentioned: interesting tech. it sounds so weird tho – dont you need that sugar its using up?

    work hard on leviathan!

  11. Finally! I’ve been waiting forever for you to post a new topic Scott-la!

    This stuff is really cool. I never imagined that I’d be alive when things like these were made. But hey, you gotta love technology.

  12. I… WANT… THOSE… CONTACTS!!!
    they are nine kinds of fawesome 🙂
    i would happily voulenteer to test out hose flash tattoo thingies aswell XD

  14. so of course now that Scott-la got rid of the request part of the post that my answer looks totally random. Thanks Scott=la. Now I look like I’m totally brain missing. -)

    The contacts are really cool. And about that skin thing– I’ve got a friend on a pump for her diabetes. It would be great if that thing could check her sugar for her and automatically compensate for fluctuations. She has some doozies– going from 40 to 400 is not a very good thing! It’s downright scary!!!

    Lator gator

  15. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT THE CONTACTS i DON’T LIKE NEEDLES

  16. dudeee the blood thing looks so cool! but it kinda makes me feel uncomfortable thinking about putting it in ….the contacts tho….i would kill for those!

  17. Hey Scott, I’ve been a fan of the Uglies series for a long time, and I’ve just been wondering… Since it’s kinda been bugging me, and it relates to this post… Have you by any chance watched the anime Ghost in the Shell? (Also Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex) Its technologies are somewhat similar to the Uglies world, except that instead of surgery on the body and all the implanted gadgets, the people’s bodies are wholly replaced by prosthetic ones. Sounds really creepy, but it makes a weird kind of sense. Anyway, just wanted to mention that.

    Oh and I also can’t believe how fast techonology is developing… I also want those contacts!

  18. I know! They look so cool. I wonder what it would be like to have an I screen…. HAHAHAHA! If you had an eyescreen, and you out your calander on their, and you were dying, and your eyescreen flashed up with your calander on it, they you would literary see your life flash before your eyes! LOL! That’s really halarious! 🙂

  19. That is going far past intense. Obviously the only solution for me is to ruin my eyesight and beg for one of those contacts. Booklight reading is the wave of my future!

    Congratulations Mr. Westerfeld. You are obviously developing severe skillz in prophecy and world-changing…ness.

    …Reeve…

  23. Very, very cool. The contacts are awesome. Now, if only they can make those blood-powered flash tattoos to be in awesome patterns and colors…Can you say, fashion statement?
    It would run for a lot of money though, I bet.
    So worth it.

  24. Even if they do come out with those contacts, they probably won’t make them with my prescription. (I’m legally blind without my contacts) It would be finsane for the virtual reality games if it really felt like first person.

  25. Okay, now, I like, read the whole article for that cell phone under your skin.
    That is so freaking awesome, I can’t stand it.
    I hope they bring it out, because too much technology has been suppressed for no reason at all, and people should know about these incredible opportunities…

    Yeah, Kenina-chan, my prescription is 20/800.

  28. WOW. thats really cool! i don’t think i would really want to stick anything with a computer chip in my eye though…regular contacts are annoying enough! I think the tatoo thing could be a great use for people who have those medical awearness bracelettes and stuff. they could just get one of those!

  29. kenina-chan. Yea, i agree. im legally blind as well…but who knows. technology is doing incredible things now, i guess!

  31. ooooooo very fawesome! i loves them!

    Sophie-La story’s in the comments of the last post it wasn’t quite done but eveyone had to leave to go to bed. so that’s as much as we got.

  33. Oh gosh.
    Scott-la.
    Haha.
    I just died of laughter.
    You’re giving them ideas, I guess.
    And you’ve started a new trend, Scott-la.
    I’d SO get those contacts.

  34. Both of those gadgets look really cool. I wonder when they’ll have a more definite conclusion on the ‘flash tattoo’, because, like you said, it’d be really good for people with diabetes, especially considering it seems like they’re always coming out with new ones, the ones that you don’t need a needle for, or more recently the handheld readers, etc.

  35. I found those pictures a couple of weeks ago and they reminded me of the Uglies so i guess good minds think alike Scott-la!

  36. Technology’s rate of advance is frightening sometimes… but it’s also really cool. I don’t think I’d want to be one of the first people to have this stuff, though, because what if it went wrong? If there’s electric wiring and stuff in/very close to your body, I think that’s dangerous. Maybe I’m just a scaredy-cat, but I don’t really want to go blind if a contact lens accidentally electrocutes me or something like that. And I don’t exactly want a tattoo. I’m frightened of permanence.

  37. Hmmm…I was just thinking, at school the teachers keep telling us to leave our cell phones at home or turn them off so can you just picture it? “Dottie, how many times do I have to tell you? Keep your arm off during class!” LoL! That’d be nine kinds of funny!

  38. OhMyGoshh…

    Thats so oober-bubbly! I want one… God. How cool would it be to have an EYESCREEN? And a flash tattoo..Moving with your heartbeat is a lot cooler though. However it would be very revealing. People could tell when you were nervous/scared etc =S

    But stills. WOW much xD

    Fawesome to finally hear from you Scott-la! How’s Leviathan going?

    xx

  39. So cool! You go Scott-sama!

    By the way: You did not make up the names in Uglies. Tally is an Israeli name: my best friend, my cousin… You use plenty of Israeli names without noticing:
    Shay – means gift, very common name.
    Aya – also an Israeli name
    Eden – Means paradise, great name for boys & girls.
    Jonathan, David – well, duh
    Miki – like Mikel, also a very common name
    Leviathan – Not a name, but a word. Means “Whale”.
    *post this little explenation on your reviews, it’ll get to Scott sometime*

  40. have any of you guys seen the new discovery show, pushing to the limit, its just like peeps when cal was trying to cover the fact that he has the parasite! OMG CREEPY!

  42. woooow…that’s awesome but kinda creepy. I mean, all these weird parallels between Uglies and real life…when did science fiction become reality?! lol.

    I like the little touch-screen (touch-skin? hmm. I could get the term patented :P) It kinda reminds me of the bar codes in The Bar Code Tattoo. Of course, the bar codes were made out to be the “mark of the beast” and all from the bible…

    I would totally LOVE to have contacts like that? I mean, really, the article says they could display web pages. I think it would be cool to be able to check the news online wherever I went. I mean, who wouldn’t?

  53. so bored…………………………………….. lala la la alama la ala ala al ala aanla la la al al ala la al al al lalala lala la al al al al al l a la lla la la al al la al al alla allalalllalalalalalalalalala la la la la alala la la la la la la la la al!

    Sophie-LA

  55. Yeah, The Barcode Tattoo is very closely related, Allie-wa.
    I the sequel to that book in the hallway and now I can’t find it! I was almost done! Grrr…
    I have perfect vision too
    I truly don’t feel like reading comments right now so I just skimmed

  57. Aww, you perfect vision people, Im practically blind without my contacts or glasses (STUPID GLASSES) Sry i have a strong hatred for my glasses

  59. wow, i got here late. that’s what happens when i go get stuck at my grandma’s all weekend….

    I WANT A FLASH TATTOO! like, seriously. how about a human heart in detailed black ink that pulses? would be hardcore, yo.

    also, don’t be hating on glasses! i loves my glasses and i’m proud.

    too lazy to read the rest of the comments.

    also, scott-la, you are taking over the world. it’s obvious. mind adding some Midnightersness to your post-apocalyptic empire? plz? would be cool.

  60. That eyescreen is so cool! I would get on ein an instant. The tatto thing creeps me out a little though, the fact that it’s connected to a vein and an artery…
    Anyway I went looking for more info about the contact lenses/eyescreen and here it is: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22731631
    It even has a picture of a rabbit that is wearing one. I can’t wait until things like this actually start coming out!

  61. I hate my glasses cause there dirty, glary and not even strong enough. I WANT THOSE LENSES, not like im going to get them i mean I want a new phone too and its not happening.

  63. hmm. something about that tattoo… just seems kinda weird.
    i love the idea of flash tattoos.. but you can make phone calls
    with them?! interesting..

  64. wow. scott-la actually….actually posted!!!! yipes.
    well gtg. cant read all 65 comments.
    i forget which one….. :shocked: :wow:
    -UMR-wa 😆

  65. grrrrrrrrr neither.
    GRRRRRRRRRRR they say i’m posting too quickly….. 😡

  67. Wow, Scott! That is very intriguing. It’s a bit scary, though, if you think about it. I have this nightmare that one day people will encase earth in this huge rocket and fly the whole planet around the universe. Oo. Weird, I know, but still pretty nervous-making.

    Humans are stupidly smart.

  69. Thats blood thing is awesome.

    I told my mom if i were ever to get any kind of contact that wasn’t just the regular it would be the Extras eye one. she said “figures”. Im totally getting that when i learn to put contacts in and when they sell them.

  77. comment on my stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now!

    plz?

    plz
    plz
    plz
    plz
    plz
    plz
    plz
    plz
    plz
    plz
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !

    ♥Sophie-LA♥

  78. sorry about the four posts. me is bored. me is going to go to bed. nighty night don’t let the peeps bite!

    he he hehe ehe he eh ehe he he heh eh ehe h ehe eh eheehe he heehehe ehe he ehe h eheheh he eh eh he he he eh he heh h ehhe heh eh ehe eh he he he he he eh he

    ♥
    ♥♥
    ♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

    he he he
    13 hearts i the lats row.

    he he he he

    ♥Sophie-La♥

  81. hehe
    i think i know how 2 do the hearts……..maybe..
    here goes nothing: <3 is that it???

  82. grrrrrrrrrrrrr it didnt work. 😳 😳
    sigh. how do u do it?????????????????
    maybe…. :<3: probably wont work. 😥

  83. 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥

  84. me on lunch break. only a couple minutes left. only like 10 minutes after lunch 🙄

  85. had 2 do grammer. 🙄 must i continue?? BORING!! i hate grammer. i’m like halfway thru my like 2 1/2 math book.
    i got my expanders in like, a couple weeks ago. 🙄 they’re so annoying and the stink real bad. like, real REAL BAD.
    i can make them squeak. hehe.
    oops there goes my timer. 🙄 🙄
    gtg. l8er
    -UMR-wa 🙄

  87. waddya mean??? the westerblog????
    well, dont get me started. it’s where we talk bout scott-la’s books and completely random stuff. stuff like that.
    or were u asking bout something else??? :mrgreen:

  88. I was spray-painting in tech today and my friend was holding the car
    Somehow the spray-paint went up the sleeve of MY jacket without getting the jacket all spray-painteded
    I also tripped over my own foot and fell INSIDE of my locker
    And after that I poked myself in the eye with my FOOT (don’t ask)
    I knocked over two desks reaching for a paper
    Plus, I fell off of the piano bench trying to turn the page of my song.
    Cheese, I think I’m just uncoordinated…

    My dad snuck meat into my food
    and worse, it was beef; I hate beef

  90. wow that sounds like a real bad day. like a stinking bad day. poor soul.

  91. My nose was bleading and I was holding a tissue on it I turned around because some one was calling my name. Well, my hand slipped and my fist went right into my eye. It was very embarassing.

    I love Superman/Tom Welling!!!!

  93. hello! i had like a super long long day. i was completely lost in every single class today because i was gone all of last week and today was my first day back. it was very unhappy-making. and i stayed after school for 2 extra hours to catch up on the chapter and a half i missed in math. but luckily once i see how to do one of those problems it pretty much clicks. and then my math teacher kept talking to me about how she hates our class (most people in it never do their homework and then are suprised when they find out there flunking. lol.) and then i had about 10 people come up to me and were like KAYLEE!!! I THOUGHT YOU DIED. yep. their exact words. and i was just standing there thinking were you glad or sad about this? but i didn’t ask them that. lol. and then other people were just OMG!! KAYLEE YOUR FINALLY BACK! WHERE THE HECK WERE YOU? so i explained it wayyy too many times to count. that’s pretty much my day in a nut-shell. and now i have lodes upon lodes of homework to do. seriously my book bag ways at least 30 lbs. oh and as i was going downstairs to my locker i was almost killed by about 20 sweaty soccer players running up and down stairs. and then they all started clapping for me. it was odd. my school is dangerous after 3.

  94. Wow! I would totally love those contacts! It would be way better than my regular contacts! I would also love the tattoo. I would love to be the first one to try them out, for the sake of technology, and to be famous…and to feel like someone in the uglies seiries. *sigh* Like sounds way better with those contacts.

  95. WHOA!!! I finished all my homework in school so i was able to go home and……work out!! not that im fat i just thought i would be nice to actually do something. (as most could tell im a computer freak!)

    I was working out when i got this awesome idea for my story! Have you ever done that? Let be more specific. Have you ever been doing a normal (or in my case new) activity or task when you just think of a great story plot or event?

    I do it all the time.

  97. oooooooooo whenever i need 2 think or burn off anger, i just excersize, and it works wonders!!! i mean, what kind of person can be angry or confused when their sweaty and their legs feel like jello?? seriously, it works. we have a bike and a runny-thing and a punching bag (seriously, if u want 2 work off anger, get one of those. just picture the person that ur angry with on the punching bag).
    gtg!!!!! :mrgreen:

  99. my english teacher finished reading the Uglies series today, and she loved them! and now my books are back in my hands. i missed them sooooooo very much. and now my mom wants to read them.

  104. I have like a HUGE reading list for all my friends, and they’re all like, “What did I do to deserve this?!?!” but then they read them and they love it. The only thing is though that they all read so Ssssslllloooowwww! It’s crazy like I read Twilight in one day and then it took one of my friend’s like two weeks. And I read Uglies in one day and it took my other friend like a week and a half.

  105. I don’t know my astrological sign
    I know it’s not Aquarius but that’s what I go by
    Everybody THINKS I am Aquarius just cuz I act like one
    The horoscopes for Aquarius are surprisingly accurate…for me

    Actually that’s my typical day

  106. I was recently at dance and it took a while for my parents to show up so I went to talk to my friend Erin who is like 10 or something
    She was attacking her pizza
    so I started laughing and me and other Erin(who is my age) were acting like we were filming her and adding commentary
    so I said, “The predator, in this case, the dancer, attacks her prey, the pizza.”
    and little Erin cracked up and fell out of the chair
    Then we were imitating our Spanish teacher teaching the verb atacar where we pretty much look like dinosaurs

    in short, it was funny and I’m surprised that I actually made somebody laugh
    everyone is always like, “I don’t get it”
    so yeah….

  110. ooooh yummy!!!! so like: ♥ i wonder if that worked!!! hehehe!!!

  111. yayayayayayayayyayayayayayya i can do it!!!!!!!!!!! ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥

  112. ♥
    ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
    ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

  113. oooooooooo cool :mrgreen: ♥
    like, the side of a pyramid.

  121. maybe i shouldn’t have tought that to every one…. hmmmmm….. check out my uglies fan fic @
    http://www.fanlib.com/user/profile.do?userId=1lp8rq

    kkkk

    ♥Sophie-LA♥

    ugggggggggggggggg i hate this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no one by- alica keys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hate her!!!!!!!!!11 she sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! her voice is so fake!!!!!!!! it is all tech stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ugh!

    sry for the ranting, but she SUCKS EGGS!!!!!!!!!!!

    ♥Sophie-LA♥

  125. so today i was finding mulitiples of 13. i found a little pattern… 1001, 2002, 3003, 4004, and 5005 are all divisible by 13. when i got to the 5000’s, i was able to predict what number it would be without adding by looking at the 1000’s, 2000’s, 3000’s and 4000’s. i will post the numbers tomorrow on my blog when i remeber to bring my folder home.

  130. this is so very not fair! you guys can see the prettiful hearts but i can’t!!! 🙁 …*cries*

  136. Haha. thats’ kick! sign me up for a tatoo and those contact lenses thingys!! heehee! i just finished catching up on ur blog scott. haha, wow, all the stuff is ah-ma-zing!! haha. i luv u scott! ur one of my fav authors of all time. along w/ stephen king, james patterson and some others =] lawl!

  138. YAY! i did my heart a differnt way! ♥ â™  ♣ aw! i cant make the rest of the suite! shucks. 😀 ♥♥♥

  148. awwwwwwww kay-wa cant see hearts?? 😥 poor person.
    how do u do the other like spades??? plz tell me!!!!! they’re so kick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ooooo bout 2 have lunch…..me hungry.
    ME WANT LUNCH!!!!!!!
    -UMR-wa ♥

  151. i want to know something
    WHAT ARE YOU PPL TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!
    you all are crazy i mean really!!
    SRY to have to say that
    but it’s true
    some of you are ok tho
    but not all
    and i won’t name any names

  152. ooo shanella that is very fool!!!

    and i can make hearts i just can’t see them. &heart; but sadly all they show up as are little bold | <–lines.

  153. Thanks! I know I’m crazy, and so are many other people here. “I’m crazy and I’m proud of it” has been my motto since fourth grade!
    ♥
    Me likey hearts.
    ♥♥♥♥♥

  158. lol. forgot the s. ♥ …*sadness*…ok pitty party is over. i’m eating cookies!!! 😀

  159. Tara-la- i loves your blog! the colors are mucho fawesome and those HSM videos are hilarious!

  160. hmmmm which homework should i do first….
    -math
    -math make-up work
    -spanish photo album
    -spanish flash cards
    -spanish make-up work
    -u.s. history wksht packet
    -u.s. history poster
    -draw tiger(art)
    -art wksht
    -study for everything
    ummmmm…… i don’t know. they all sound veryyy boring. and awful.

  162. Ouch. I pity you, Kay-wa. I don’t have any homework because it’s ISAT week. (I’m not sure, but my theory is that ISAT stands for Illinois Standardized Achievement Test.)

  165. Omg i hate No One by Alica Keys too! she is soo bad! she can not pitch a freakin high not no matter what anyone says. She cant carry a note either.

    My fav song right now are-
    The Anthem- Pitbul
    I’m so sick- flyleaf (the beginning is my fav part)
    Take U There- Sean Kingston (love his accent when he says “Pina Coladas! no clue how to spell that)
    Love Song- Sara Barellies

    I dont have any hw. Woop-ee

  166. i know we’re crazy, asympatheticmind. we’re all crazy. and we r talking bout scott-la’s books and random stuff. mostly random stuff, tho. we’re just weird that way. like, REALLY weird. and crazy. feel free 2 join us. have u read scott-la’s books?? well u have 2 if u havent. so, welcome 2 our craziness!!!!

  167. o yea, and as most of u know, i’m homeschooled, so i dont have ne evening hw!!!! :mrgreen: yipee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: i never have 2 do makeup work!!!!!!! :mrgreen:
    hehe i guess my fingers r really hyper. i’m not really. acutally sorta hyper. well, to add 2 my craziness, i like 2 waltz 2 country ( ♥ ) a lot. yea, i know i’m crazy. like really crazy. but hey, that’s who i am 😛 heeeeheeeee!! :mrgreen:
    -UMR-wa ♥

  171. me is verry bored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 la la la la la alala la la la la lal al la l a!!!!!!!!!!!1

    i am going to work on my uglies fan fic. he he he he eh ehe he!

    read them off my fan lib
    click my name and you will see!!!!!! do it you no u want to……

    ♥Sophie-LA♥

  173. to do the ♥ u have 2 do & hearts ; just minus the spaces. like, ♥ see ❓
    ♥ UMR-wa ♥

  174. grrrrr they always tell me that i’m posting comments 2 quickly. sigh. stinking wordpress. 😥

    well, as i WAS saying before, we’re almost at 200 comments!!! ♥
    – ♥ UMR-wa ♥

  175. omygosh where r u guys????????
    well, i was playing ♥ , and first i played as tally-wa against shay-la david and zane-la, and i won, and shay-la got 120 points. yipee 4 me!!! 😥 for shay-la.
    then i was jessica against melissa, dess and rex, and rex really killed me. he was real good (like the computer, but i named it rex).
    well, gtg.
    wait a minute—–
    ♠
    does that work???
    plzworkplzworkplzwork……..

  176. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!! it worked!!!!!!!
    ♠ ♥ ♠ ♥
    yummy.
    well, gtg (this time 4 real)
    ♥ ♠ -UMR-wa ♥ ♠

  179. oooooooooooooo cool early release. wonder if i can talk mom into letting me have early release…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

  181. boredness…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

    ya!

    bord

    ♥Sophie-LA♥

  187. man. i still have so very much homework to do and it’s 10:30 here. i’m gonna be up till like 1 a.m. grrrrrr… which means i’ll be cranky and tired tomorrow. this bites. so much to do, so little time to do it in. well i shouldn’t be on here right now cuz i’m already not gonna get much sleep so i guess i better go. laters.

  188. Cool! Everything is be coming reality as how Mr Westerfeld has written it be! Seriously… perhaps he could consider being one of those people who predict the future of humans since what he says is just so accurate!

  189. well thanks for welcomeing me
    but im not as random as some of you
    and yes i’ve read his books

  191. i have a question
    were do you all live?
    like in what country?
    The U.S.?
    if you do, like were?
    LA? Fargo?
    Orlando?

  193. I live in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. In the USA.
    Hearts:
    & hearts ; (without the spaces)
    Spades (I think):
    & spades ; (without the spaces)
    ♥
    ♠

  194. so guess what…. my aunt won Mamma Mia tickets for me for tonight but my parents are outta town so they can’t take me. and so i might not get to go. that will be $143 going to waste. how sad is that. i might still get to go though if my friend can convince her mom to take us. hopefully. and if all else fails my aunt said she might take me. but she doesn’t really wanna cuz she doesn’t like the opera. ughh…. this is so hard.

  195. don’t you think those contacts would be irritating under your eye lid with the chip and stuff… i would still get it! They should put color and designs and OOHHHH! what about a light up flashing pattern?!?!?!?!?!? That would be fausome. I LUV that word.

  196. Hope ya get to go Kay-wa. It sounds like fun. I live in Cali, but not tellin where exactly cuz then I’d get my computer oh so taken away, and that would seriously impair my writing needs. asypatheticmind, where do you live? Just curious.

  199. my aunt ended up taking me and it was AMAZING!! i love, love, loved it! the next brodway show coming is Rent! i wanna see it so very bad! can you tell i’ve got a thing for brodway. hehe. that’s 2 brodway musicals in the last month. you gotta love free tickets!

  206. Here’s another realization of technology from the Uglies series: Morphing plastic for implants that can change from soft to rigid, based on how sea cucumbers can morph. Its not for making you pretty though, more for brain implants.

    It also has potential for sneak suit type clothing!

  213. OMFG!!!!!!! THAT IS SOOOO ICY!! ID EFFIN KILL FOR THOSE CONTACTS….SO THEIR REAL??? U CAN REALLY GET THEM?? OMFG! LMAO, and the tattoo thing….ive been dieing for a tattoo but im only 14 so cant get them but so will get a flash tattoo when i can!! EEP!!!!!

  216. Has anyone here noticed how much the supermodel Gemma Ward looks like a pretty!!! She is gorgeously perfect. Look up her name in Wikipedia and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

    The reason I’m writing this is the fact that I think she could star in a Flash Tatoo watch sometime soon.

    I hope Scott reads this……

  217. Hola.
    That reminds of time me and my friends were speaking “Spaustralian”. Where we said to just like random people “Hola mates comoesta?” with an Australian accent.
    People would just look at us like we were freaks and walk away trying to act all natural so that we couldn’t tell that they were walking away because of us.

    I love Superman/Tom Welling!!!!

  221. wow. with all of this stuff comin out, I may end up like a surge monkey or just a plain special!
    who knows, maybe someday soon the world will turn to pretty time, before us rusties die out from the oil bug. it’d be pretty awesome, except, we could all do with out the bubblyness.

  222. Go onto youtube and type in luv addict. The most random music video you’ll probably ever see in you life!!
    I love Superman/Tom Welling!!!!

  224. you do not need bad vision to get the contacts!!! if u havent noticed u do not need bad vision to get colored contacts and they will probably make the contacts for people with good and bad vision

  226. Some times when i read scotts books i envy the fact that they have hoverboards,flash,surge,adventure…..does ne 1 else feel that way???

  227. I always knew eyescreens are realistic, just hard to do. There is a man with a computer chip implanted in his arm that allows him to control computers, but eyescreens are just connected to the nervous system and/or the muscular system (cause aya had to flex her hands/fingers to get it to work)

  228. To Aly-wa, YES!! yes I do! I envy their cool stuff. I want to hoverboard so badly. and everything I’ve heard about eyescreens makes them sound awesome. I MUST go to borders this week to get Extras…GAH.

  233. never been better
    u like scott ??
    r u a crazed fan ???
    like some of the other ppl on
    dis page

  234. Gee thats kinda mean!! dont u think so? whatd they ever do 2 u i mean reely? yes i like scott i may not b dat crazy but im sure ill fit rite in

  236. u dont gotta act all B*#@y u no u could make friendz if u were jus a little nicer i hope u got that cuz well u need 2 like totally read dis u need help and latta im out 2

  238. wow, this is tottaly bubbly! if any one knows about any thing say “mysterious” i need to know, it’s crucially important, my emails carissabeon@yahoo.com , it is that important that i’d give out my email!

  240. That is sooo bubbly! 🙂
    I want a flash tattoo like the ones on the new book covers they look really pretty!!

  241. Ok, look what is going on here? I can’t find any days that Scott Westerfeld is on tour!!!!!!!!! I am getting mad @ him! he won’t come to Utah!

  258. you Know what. i know the scale of dickkkks from small to big.
    its
    mexican. white, black

    so there for you have a small dickkk

  261. do you want to know something funny?

    do you know way god blessed black man with a big dickkk
    so they can have a threed leg to fun faster. HA HA

  263. you are the coolest friend ever. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@################################^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^%%%%%%%%%%%%*************&&&&&&&&&))))))))))(****************O))))(******________)(*&^%$

  269. ok whats up with raul’s & pj’s comment not aproriot but who cares they havent been on since april and ive heard worse at school. but any way id totally love to get a flash tatoo it be so cool

  277. Dude, that is totally icey! I seriously want those contacts! (And notify me when they come out with the hoverboard, we knkow that’s coming next!)

  279. OMG this is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool i heard that there’s going to be an ugly movie out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant wait to see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  281. I. Freaking. Want. An. EYESCREEN. And a hoverboard, and a house that makes stuff for me, and flash tattoos…Yeah. Old news or not, I still want this stuff so bad…

  282. I want those contacts!!!! and a hoverboard and flash tattoos and a crash bracelet(just in case)! They r already on my wish list! do u think “santa” will get me some?!? :p

  283. ive been waiting for someone to figure this out and im soooooooooooo sure whoever did would hit the top 200!and i might of misunderstood you wandav but im pretty sure icy means an extreme bubblyness or extreme exitement.i also think that people like us should take the world over,not.but i have a feeling that the world will turn out that way.i often draw on my self and wonder what it would be like to have an eye screen and flash tatoos.ps does the eye screen actually work or stay the same but look all fancy,just wondering it would be cool to have either way.pease to my fellow bubble haeds or special heads

  284. that is so cool, i would kill for those. That is so like advanced and futuristic. Scott, do you think we will end up like the rusties or even worse? I heard the world is ending in 2012, so I don’t suppose it would matter anyways, right?

    (L)(L)(L) I LOVE YOUR BOOKS (L)(L)(L)

  285. Why in Extras is it Aya’s story not Tally’s until the end?? Because i think it’s better with Tally

  290. You know what’d be a step up? If connecting to the skin interface (Skinterface) was a wire to your ears, where there would be tiny chips near your eardrums, playing music without headphones.

    It’d, like, play music when you squeeze your first joint! 😀

  292. That is… just plain epic.
    By 2018 we won’t even need cell phones anymore. It’ll just be a chip in your ear and an eyescreen. Maybe they’ll even have flash tattoos and skintenna to hook up to it!
    P.S. The link is broken Scott-sensei…

  293. Hello I loved your article. I believe that it’s important when discussing diabetes to at least refer to natural remedies that have been shown to be efficient in managing high blood sugar. Various natural herbs can be including in a diabetics routine that will help preserve a healthy sugar level.

  294. Great job ! I really lOved this story , I’m 12 and I’ve read them all ! Tally is my favorite charter , shes so .. So .. Icy ! 🙂

  297. I love these books! When I read I see myself as Tally. I often feel angry when Tally calls Shay “Boss” because Tally seems more “boss”. It may seem not lyal of me to say so but still! O-O Tally, your the boss! Don’t let shay boss you even tho she get cured from being special. 🙂 oops

    ~Akira-la

  299. wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Zane!!!!!!!! nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu i loved you!

Comments are closed.