OK. I love Google but sometimes I have to wonder. I didn’t mind Google Glass because you could at least take it off, but a neck tattoo that doubles as a microphone/lie detector? Come on guys. If you’re going for the super villain vibe, just buy the white cat and volcano and get it over with.
Cue drug dealer scene
“Boss…! He’s got a neck tattoo…!”
“Kill him.”
Part of me thinks this is pretty cool and part of me is freaked out.
Yeah, if you read the story it’s not really a tattoo. It’s more like a temorary tattoo in that it is topically applied rather than injected under the skin.
About what I figured, another misleading headline just trying to get you to click the link.
That was my suspicion as well and when I read the article I was actually looking for something to indicate that it wasn’t a reall tat but didn’t see anything. Are you talking about the article or did you look at the patent application? If it’s in the article and I missed it, my apologies.
Here is the abstractfrom the patent application, so it sounds like it’s not intended to be a real tattoo because they are are saying “applied” but IDK.
But I still don’t see anything in the article that would tip you off to that.
Some other articles online seem to suggest electronic tattoos are akin to temporary tattoos.
Lasting 24 hours if pre-printed and applied or 2 weeks if printed directly on the skin.
But then it’s not a tattoo, it’s a sticker. Why are they calling it a tattoo?
Because the mark of the beast isn’t quite as sinister when it’s a removable decal.
Oooo. NOW we’re getting creepy. I can definitely see 3 6’s arranged in a rosette working as a serviceable wifi antenna. 
A functional tattoo? What a novel concept.
Even if it’s a sticker, how lame is that? A sticker on your neck would be pretty uncomfortable, and what are you gonna do, put a new one on every day? If so, wow, that’s gonna be expensive over time. If not, wow, that’s gonna be filthy.
