Gadgets

Guy Gets Magnets Implanted In His Arm To Hold His iPod

The touchscreen-equipped iPod nano spawned a multitude of straps and cases letting users wear it like a watch. But none are as creative, or downright creepy, as this body-piercing artist who had four magnets implanted in his arm to hold it in place.


March 21, 2012
Science

Nokia Wants Your Call Alert To Be A Vibrating Magnetic Tattoo

We see patents come and go all the time, but here’s a crazy one from Nokia: magnetic tattoos that vibrate to alert you to your phone. Talk about keeping in touch.


August 26, 2011
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The Most Tragic Way To Celebrate An Earthquake

Earlier this week, heroic Brooklynite Jonathan Berg managed to accomplish something that was simultaneously accomplished by a mere 2.5 million other Brooklynites: not get killed by a weak-sauce earthquake. And then immortalised said accomplishment with a tattoo. Oh, Jonathan.


August 13, 2011
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I Hope Temporary Teeth Tattoos Never Become Popular Here

Trend hunters in Japan say the island nation’s latest fad is for people to stick temporary tattoos to their teeth. If these pics are any indication, it looks as if someone’s teeth are falling apart.


August 12, 2011
Science

What Is This?

It’s not a flower. Maybe it’s part of a making-of documentary of a famous tub-based shock site. Actually, it does involve body modification, but it’s in the service of science, not human debasement.


July 25, 2011
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Tattoo Body Modification Gets Futuristically Functional

One day, in the not so distant future because it’s actually being used in a testing environment today, people will use invisible nano-tattoos to give doctors an instant snapshot of their body’s inner workings.


July 13, 2011
Online

Finally, A Website That Steps Up To Prevent Unwanted Body Art

The next time you see a middle-aged man with an unfortunately placed “Frankie Say Relax” tattoo, hold your judgement. Many Friday nights ago, he may have fallen victim to a threat that haunts us all: the drunken tattoo decision.


July 11, 2011
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French Man Gets Interactive QR Code Tattoo

Real, fake or enhanced, this “animated tattoo” marketing video out of France appears to have worked as advertised: A tattooed lad with a desire for a QR code on his chest has received said body art, and it started moving.


June 9, 2011
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Facebook Friends Tattoo Was A Hoax

We have all been pwned by the lady with the Facebook friends tattoo. Turns out, Susyj87 did not get a real tattoo. It was a transfer tattoo that washes off in a couple of days.


June 8, 2011
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Woman Gets Massive Tattoo Of All Her Facebook Friends’ Faces

The latest edition of absurd Facebook-related tattoos: This lady (?) got a tattoo of her 192 Facebook friends’ faces on her arm. Ugh. If this is going to become a trend, then Facebook needs to add a privacy setting that lets you not allow people to get your Facebook profile picture tattooed on a person’s arm.