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Nokia wants you to get some ink:

If you own a cellphone, there's a good chance you've encountered phantom vibrations; you know, when you could've sworn you felt your phone vibrating in your pocket when it really wasn't. Nokia's poised to either eliminate phantom vibrations completely or take them to new (and possibly somewhat creepy) heights with a new patent application for haptic tattoos that vibrate when your phone rings.

The theoretical process involves being tattooed with ferromagnetic inks that have been superheated in order to become demagnetized. The inks then listen for specific magnetic fields emitted from your electronic device -- the patent lists mobile phones as a possible transmitter, but also a ton more, including laptops and game consoles -- and vibrates when it receives the signal. Nokia says it could be used to notify users not only about incoming calls and notifications, but also when, say, you launch an application or get too close to the transmitting device.

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