‘Father of the cell phone’ says one day we’ll have devices embedded under our skin

BARCELONA, Spain — One day phones will become devices integrated into our skin, rather than the black rectangular slabs we’ve become accustomed to, according to the inventor of the cell phone.

“The next generation will have the phone embedded under the skin of their ears,” Marty Cooper,

, told CNBC in an interview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.

Such devices won’t need…