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lasers

Laser Tattoo Body-Modding, This Time it's Not Painful: Fingernails

The skin-ablation laser tattoo we showed you recently was creepy mainly because burning your naked skin is going to hurt, but this new laser body-mod tackles a safer target, fingernails. The portraits of famous bods you can see in the image are laser-etched into black nail polish (I know, it looks like they're made of seared, blackened nail, but they're not), and member lamedust over at Instructables has got a pretty comprehensive guide. So if you're crazy, you too can etch pics onto the end of your digits. The video makes for interesting watching. More »

8:10 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,907 views, 27 comments

Latest by DWD: Attractive...NOT! more »

laser engraving

Zing Laser Brings Laser Cutting Goodness to the Average Guy

Fans of laser engraving can now prettify all their stuff with Epilog Laser's new Zing Laser, a machine that's roughly about the size of a bulky office scanner. The Zing Laser, one of the first fully functional low-cost laser etchers on the market, has 25 watts of cutting power and can engrave designs into wood, acrylic, plastic, leather, cork, glass, treated metals and more. More »

11:00 AM on Sat Jul 12 2008
By Elaine Chow
22,546 views, 48 comments

tattoos

Guy Uses Laser-Etch Machine to Tattoo Himself (Verdict: Flaming Nutcase)

See that robot there? It's burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho yes: that sent an icky feeling up your spine didn't it? If it didn't, then it should have. Try looking through the gallery, and then watch the video of a skin-etch in action, and that should do the trick... More »

7:50 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Kit Eaton
63,453 views, 121 comments

Latest by krom: 1)perfect for party's instead of stamps. they are so 20th century. 2)so, they are not perm. great, use them to sell ad space on your skin (you know like the retards who did with perm tats). more »

toys

Etch-A-Sketch Clock Automatically Draws the Time


The Arduino platform has been the basis of some awesome projects in the past, but I have yet to see an application of the technology that is more fun than this Etch-a-Sketch clock. At the beginning of every minute, the device draws out the time in a matter of seconds and then erases it to start the process all over again the next minute. Fan freakin' tastic. [Make]

7:30 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,891 views, 22 comments

Latest by ry_ry: That's sweet! Especially because drawing on those things was always frickin hard (impossible). more »

toys

Controlling an Etch-a-Sketch with a Mouse Might Make it Actually Fun

Here's a confession: I've always kind of hated the Etch-a-Sketch. More »

12:50 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Adam Frucci
7,386 views, 24 comments

Latest by ManekiNeko: A serial port?! Damn, that mouse is older than the Etch-A-Sketch! Still a pretty neat mod, though. more »

apple

MacBook Air Can Be Laser Etched, With Monkeys

Make's writer and laser master Phil Torrone has etched a monkey on his MacBook Air, a process which he says worked as well as with the other MacBooks after leveling it so the surface was perpendicular to the ray. Whatever. I'm like, monkeys. Cool. Ook ook. [Make]

11:44 AM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Jesus Diaz
10,264 views, 50 comments

toys

Operation Pen Makes Playing Doctor Fun Again

While we opted not to go to med school—a choice that we celebrate every day by working in our underwear (though also a choice we regret after catching ourselves in the eye once with a Wicked Laser, true story)—the scales may have tipped were this Operation Pen around several years back. Your favorite game on an obnoxiously oversized writing device, the organs are even fastened to the game with string so you don't lose all the pieces during your first particularly shaky weekend after losing rights to that prescription pad.

The Etch a Sketch pen is neat, too. Both run $5.50. [Product Page via nerdapproved]

2:00 PM on Sun Feb 3 2008
By Mark Wilson
3,773 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: I've seen both of these at TOYS R US or CVS drugs for a while now. The Etchasketch is usually really horrible, and the line isn't straight usually, it's all askew. I never tried the Operation one. But it's cute for nostalgia's more »