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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
7,018 views, 27 comments

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

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
66,298 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 more »

Caption Contest: 'Free WiFi' Knuckle Tattoos My attempt: "Well, at least they won't get outdated as quickly as my Free Willy tattoo." Surely, you can do better. [LiveJournal via Gawker] MORE »

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tattoos

University Logo Tattoo on Human Hair: a Micro-Scale Rebellion?

What do you do if you have a focus ion beam microscope normally used to make nano-devices, a scanning electron microscope and some spare time? Well, you etch your university logo onto a human hair, of course! At least, if you're the Engineering Dept at McMaster University you do. It's not the smallest logo ever— that's an IBM one with 35 xenon atoms, I believe. But it's possibly the ickiest, and it's certainly high resolution. Impressive. We've only got one quibble: the uni logo, guys? I'm sure Giz readers would be more imaginative. More »

11:29 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Kit Eaton
8,686 views, 53 comments

Latest by FletcherChthonius: Comment on University Logo Tattoo on Human Hair: a Micro-Scale Rebellion? Fake!!! This article is on neither the official more »

science

Tattoos Might Be the Best Way to Deliver a Cancer Vaccine

If you've ever considered getting a tattoo, it's probably for aesthetic purposes. That's all well and good, but in the near future getting a tattoo might be the best way to deliver vaccines, so if you go in for a new ink job you could also protect yourself from any number of diseases, including some cancers. More »

3:10 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Adam Frucci
22,531 views, 36 comments

Latest by Way: "it would just suck to be forced into getting a tat in order to get the vaccine." Yes. It WOULD suck. more »

subcutaneous self expression

Braille Tattoos Are Touchy, Feely

A German art student has developed a way to create tattoos for the blind, by implanting surgical steel, titanium, or medical plastic balls just under the skin in formations that spell out words in Braille. More »

11:15 AM on Fri Oct 19 2007
By Wilson Rothman
8,998 views, 29 comments

the preferred inmate interaction with my butt

Prisoners Use N64 Rumble Packs For Tattooing

Not being well-versed in the areas of our penal system...our collective penal system... we had no idea that the N64 rumble pack was huge with prison tattoo artists. A maximum security prison guard recently wrote our sister site Kotaku, and here's what he had to say: More »

1:55 PM on Sat Jul 28 2007
By Mark Wilson
21,053 views, 19 comments

Latest by DaveExile: Black people use Gizmodo, just not on Apples. Get it right ;). more »

windows

The Blue Screen of Death Tattoo

We're not sure what's worse; the Zune guy getting three Zune tattoos, or this painful-as-hell Microsoft blue screen of death (BSOD) tattoo up this guy's entire right arm. We're guessing this guy is a Windows fan, because nobody hates Windows THAT MUCH to endure hours of pain just for the constant reminder that Windows occasionally crashes when you install the wrong driver. [ModBlog via Crunchgear]

6:50 PM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Jason Chen
46,592 views, 27 comments

Latest by JayP71: @voodoodle: I have tatoos...but an error message???? His body and all but I can't imagine he'll still think this was more »

body art

Show Your Tough Side With McPhee's Geek Tattoos

The ultimate geek tattoo could only be a transferable one. It's painless—although beware when peeling off the paper, as you might trap a couple of hairs which for most geeks can be a painful experience. This $7.95 pack from Archie McPhee has missed a trick, though. How about a massive line drawing of Jobs' or Gates' face for your back? Then you can strip off your black software T-shirt and really show your fellow tech fiends how you've suffered in the name of tech. {McPhee via Popgadget]

5:37 AM on Fri Jul 20 2007
By AddyDugdale
9,613 views, 8 comments

Latest by 2MuchBS: i want the gameover tat so i can point to it when i get married more »

laptops

Tattoos for Your Laptop: Safer Than Letting Your Mac Drink Jack and Ride a Hog

A Williamsburg tattooist, Scott Campbell, has come up with half a dozen designs that you can have lasered onto your laptop for $200. If you up the price by $100 he'll etch your own design onto your machine, just like he did above, for Brooklyn-based artist Kaws. If these take off, perhaps Apple will change their ad campaign, swapping Justin Long for a large and leathered-up hairy biker who answers to the name of Steel Ball (he lost the second one in a fight down Altamont way). Check the gallery below for the six designs on offer. More »

10:59 AM on Tue Mar 20 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
5,731 views, 9 comments

Latest by 1080pimp: How much for the Hamburger Helper logo pictured there? more »