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Electronic Sensor Tattoos Can Now Be Printed Directly Onto Human Skin

Thanks to the same people that brought us the stick-on electric tattoo and stretchable battery, we’re now looking at a future of electronic sensors that can be printed directly onto human skin.


12 Idiots With Hideous Apple Tattoos

It is one thing to like Apple products. It is quite another to let your insane tech zealotry escalate to the point where you are actually paying other people to inject ink into your skin with needles so that you may forever serve as a fleshy canvas displaying your deranged, rabidly fanatical devotion to an operating system. Here’s a bunch of certifiable lunatics who did that second thing.


What Happens When The Website Tattooed On Your Face Goes Belly Up

Back in the halcyon days of the dotcom boom, we did a lot of crazy things. We spent millions of dollars on extravagant nerd parties. We lavished mountains of funding on startups selling nappies to puppies. And we eventually skinvertised on the backs and arms and faces of human beings. And then those people had to go on living their lives.


The 9 Most Terrible Tech Tattoos

You’re free to ink whatever permanent monstrosity you want on your body, but when it comes to technology tattoos, be careful! Some tech tats have expiration dates. All technologies will eventually be replaced, but some will be remembered more fondly than others — and some won’t be remembered at all.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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