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CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
- cestith 3mo agoThis is neat for small flash pieces. I’m not sure I want to imagine the process for getting a half sleeve of one’s own design applied this way, fifteen millimeter diameter at a time.
- randomblock1 3mo agoI don't see why in the future this couldn't be applied to a semi-flexible backing. Probably will be fragile and hard to make but seems possible.
- cestith 3mo agoI think that’s the direction the company will take if they are financially successful with their early products. This might actually be a really good technology to license out instead of trying to build a market alone.
- psd1 3mo agoAlignment would be impossible, which would constrain the design. You could achieve a decent floral pattern, but you'd need to forego any vines. Celtic knots are out. Presumably larger prints will arrive, but you still have the trouble of mapping to a non-euclidean surface. Unless of course you're tattooing Euclid.
- echoangle 3mo agoKind of scary, imagine someone putting an ad in that and placing it on random people without them noticing. Obviously doesn’t really make sense because if it’s an ad you also know who did it but somehow that’s the first thing that came to mind for me.
- yrjrjjrjjtjjr 3mo agoWhat I imagine is drunk youngsters tattooing a dick on the forehead of their passed out friend as a prank.
- alexjplant 3mo agoFrom TFA: > Applied with a handheld tool, the patch stays on the skin for around 10 to 15 minutes You'd notice.
- echoangle 3mo agoEven when drunk? I’m not saying it’s a real danger (people willing to do that could already do a lot of other stuff) but I wouldn’t be so sure that you couldn’t do it either.
- arcfour 3mo agoYou can already pretty easily handcuff a drunk person and then draw all over them with a sharpie, and that doesn't take 15 minutes of leaving a patch alone.
- Bender 3mo agoProbably more applicable to large scale internment camps where people do not have a choice.
- geremiiah 3mo agoCapitalism uglifying the world that tiny bit more, so long as we can squeeze some more $$$ out of poor impressionable people...
- BugsJustFindMe 3mo ago"Other people like something that I don't like! Oh no!"
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- orthecreedence 3mo agoI want one with the OpenAI logo!
- ddoolin 3mo agoAre you suggesting that tattoos are uglifying the world or that an innovation like this device is? I am no defender of capitalism but I don't see the connection.
- delecti 3mo agoNeat concept, but the density of needles seems quite low for tattoing, and that is likely why the linework of the tattoos in those pictures is so blurry. While getting tattooed, the needle will puncture skin and deposit ink typically 1500+ times per minute. The most specific that this article gets is saying the patches have "hundreds" of needles. At the high end (999 needles in a patch) this means that this patch has substantially lower resolution than a single minute of being tattooed. So, it's a neat gimmick, but it'll need a lot of work to be much more than that. It'd be neat for some small pieces to fill space I guess. And a bit of a tangent, but I also have a pretty strong needle aversion, and I have not found that getting tattooed "feels" like there are any needles involved in the process. I know logically that it is a needle, but subjective process (the pain and visuals) really bears no resemblance to a needle.
- chocrates 3mo agoIt feels more like a fork scraping a sunburn for me, than repeatedly stabbed with a needle
- therealpygon 3mo agoMakes you wonder why; if we can cut steel in half with water, would it be possible to deliver ink to a specified depth with high pressure “ink needles” (microscopic high pressure short burst of liquid ink)? Like a super high pressure inkjet printer. Though, I assume a more practical point might be a robot that would have an ink-feeding extremely fast cycling device for doing tattoos that can complete them in a fraction of the time. Would suck for artists if you could just AI design your tattoo and have it done in minutes by a robot that can sense your movements and reactions and adjust in real time.
- psd1 3mo agoMy guess is that pressure-blasting the ink will not be more comfortable than driving it in with a physical needle. Maybe this belief comes from being a sysad - dot matrix printers never did me no harm, but inkjets are demonic.
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- pavon 3mo agoDesign you own graphics or select from our exclusive collection: https://mocagh.org/broderbund/printshop-refcard.pdf https://mocagh.org/broderbund/printshop-refcard.pdf
- dekhn 3mo agoWas this meant seriously? I literally used those graphics 40 years ago (it's from a wonderful program called PrintShop (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087798)
- pavon 3mo agoThe needle grid reminded me of dot-matrix printers which then brought me back to hours spent with PrintShop. The similar resolution and size of this device and PrintShop graphics tickled me with retro-future visions of people sitting at an Apple II picking out tattoo designs to be printed on themselves.
- dekhn 3mo agoGot it. I guess there is a whole subgenre of 8-bit pixel art tattoos as well.
- dekhn 3mo agoAre tattoos normally considered painful? I got my first one recently (a small shoulder tattoo) and it didn't hurt really, more like a cat's tongue rasping against the skin. I have heard my artist has a light touch, and it wasn't a very sensitive area.
- lux-lux-lux 3mo agoThe shoulder is a very easy place to be tattooed, which is why that area gets recommended for first-timers. Places with less flesh and more bone are much worse; I have tats on the tops of my feet, and those were agonizing.
- ddoolin 3mo agoJust thinking about that makes me a bit queasy.
- delecti 3mo agoI think their reputation is exaggerated compared to how painful they actually are, but yes, they have a reputation for being painful, and they can indeed be quite painful. You picked one of the easier places for it. The worst I've experienced is on the elbow; it felt like my entire skeleton and nervous system were being jackhammered.
- xnx 3mo agoApproximate tattoo pain by location on body: https://www.healthline.com/health/body-modification/pain-tattoos-chart https://www.healthline.com/health/body-modification/pain-tat...
- somenameforme 3mo agoA butt tattoo is painful? That seems very surprising.
- lux-lux-lux 3mo agoThere’s a lot of nerve endings, probably the same reason spankings are a thing.
- mindslight 3mo agoSeems perfect for barcodes...
- roughly 3mo agoUnless they’re also coming out with painless permanent tattoo removal as well, this seems like one of those things where removing the friction isn’t actually a good thing. Door knobs and warning signs on one way doors are a design feature, not a bug.
- kadoban 3mo agoThe friction exists vastly unevenly. Some people are so scared of needles that they couldn't possibly get a tattoo recreationally, some people don't give af and get them with no thought at all. The current scheme is not optimally applying friction where it belongs so there's a lot of room for improvement.
- wartywhoa23 3mo agoA perfect technology to mark cattle with QR codes on the forehead.
- unixhero 3mo agoI want the last ones. If not how am I going to get into Costco
- metalman 3mo agonot tattoos, these are stamps it will show in there eyes and the pain will come as the price to be paid for having a painless choice, reversed
- effnorwood 3mo agocompany invents mid life crisis option for the pain averse directionally challenged.
- weezing 3mo agoReminds me of marking cattle