Tattoo

Would You Let This ‘Automatic Tattooing Device’ Stab You Repeatedly?

For up to $10,000 the robot is capable of producing works that were “previously out of reach as a tattoo.” And yes, NFTs are involved.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin

Photo: © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Marco Samadelli-Gregor Staschitz

Genetic Analysis of ‘Ötzi the Iceman’ Reveals Ancient Mummy’s Ancestry

Scientists revisiting the famous mummy’s genome found he had dark skin and was probably bald in life.

Human History Isaac Schultz

Painless Tattoos Might One Day Be a Thing Thanks to These Ink Filled Microscopic Needles

The tattoos will last for about a year and will be perfect for medical patients.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Photo: Barsotti - Italian Institute of Technology

Scientists Have Invented Light-Up OLED Tattoos

Tattoos are usually considered a form of personal expression, but a team of researchers in Europe have created what they’re calling the world’s first light-emitting tattoo based on OLED screen technology that, besides presumably looking kind of cool, could also serve as a visible warning about potential health concerns. Tattoos are used by people to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Tattoos Rumored To Break The Apple Watch’s Wrist Detection

Every new Apple product needs some form of scandal — whether real, or engineered by breaking an iPhone over bended knee — to call its own in the week after launch. And for those of us with tattooed wrists, the Apple Watch flaw has reared its gold-plated head. According to a Reddit thread discovered by…

Tech News Chris Mills

This Guy is Practically a Cyborg With His 3D Tattoo

Don’t be fooled: This is not Tony Stark’s latest bionic arm. It’s an incredibly detailed tattoo, one whose proud owner looks like he just stepped out of Neuromancer. The tattoo was inked to life by Tony Booth, who runs Dabs Tattoo in Southport, England, along with his wife. Booth, known for his complex, geometric designs,…

Tech News Maddie Stone

There’s Still Plenty Of Time To Celebrate World Pangolin Day!

It’s the third Saturday in February, which means … it’s World Pangolin Day! (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) This CNN post offers some ways to celebrate (get a pangolin tattoo!), with a link to this clip of Randall (the guy who let the world know that honey badgers don’t care) sharing some fun facts about everyone’s favorite…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Woman with most extreme body modifications just got even more extreme

This is María José Cristerna also known as The Vampire Woman, in a photo just taken at the Venezuela Tattoo International Expo in Caracas, Venezuela. She was considered the woman with the most tattooing and body modifications in the world,but that hasn’t stopped her from getting even more. Don’t get deceived by appearances: María José…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Video: How removing tattoos with lasers works

Smarter Every Day takes an in-depth look at something super cool: removing tattoos with the help of lasers. The science behind it is fascinating, all the zapping lasers do is basically break down the bigger ink blobs inside your skin and let your body’s white blood cells and liver take care of the rest of…

Sploid Casey Chan

Now This Is An Epic Little Mermaid Chest Tattoo

If you’re going to get a Little Mermaid (villain-centric) Disney chest piece, this is the high-water mark. Amazing. Featured in Buzzfeed’s 25 Disney Villain Tattoos To Die For. Mark Barela’s Little Mermaid tattoo, done by artist Matthew Tillman, is not only very creative (we love the layout!) but it is bold as hell. We like…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Keep Your Cookbooks Clean With a Temporary Recipe Tattoo on Your Arm

The cookbooks I’ve used in my life have endured drippings, grease splatters, and one especially harrowingly bath in a pot of tomato soup. Let’s face it, a big block of paper is an inconvenient thing to lug around the kitchen. But there’s an ingenious little idea that puts tattoos in a perfectly convenient place to…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

What getting a tattoo looks like in super slow motion

If you ever wondered what getting a tattoo feels like, just watch this super slow motion video showing up close shots of the tattoo needle relentlessly stabbing people’s skin over and over again so that the ink sets underneath. It’s hypnotic and rhythmic actually, if you’re the type to enjoy seeing skin bounce up and…

Sploid Casey Chan

Shoot Electricity From Your Skull With These Great Silk Screen Prints

These gorgeous silk screen prints by London-based tattoo artist Deno depict bold hieroglyphic towers of electrical energy and human body parts, like black & white totem poles from a future skull cult, some New School universe of pyramids and castles where stairways coil up and over power lines and stars threaten to float away in…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

This mind-bending optical illusion is freaking the hell out of me

It may seem like this guy has a space-time bending black hole on his skull, which is about to swallow that guy’s finger, but of course it’s just an awesome optical illusion, created by artist Cory Ferguson, instagrammed by Geometry Chaos. If you have to get a tattoo, you may as well blow people’s minds…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

How the Art of Tattoo Has Colored World History

Tattoo is among humanity’s earliest and most ubiquitous art forms. Cultures from every habitable continent have embedded permanent dyes in their bodies for more than 5000 years—as mystical wards, status symbols, rites of passage, or simply as personal decoration. That tradition continues today, just with a much smaller chance of infection. The Ancient Origins of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Oh wow, it took me a second to realize this pen is actually a tattoo

I don’t like most tattoos, but I have to recognize that, when the artist is good, they can be admirable works of art. Like this pen on an ear—it looks so real it’s surreal! It could have been created by Salvador Dalí or René Magritte. Especially Dalí, looking at the melting ear: SPLOID is a…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Some Guy Got a Random Guy’s Facebook Profile Pic Tattooed to His Butt

When we said that Selfless Portraits, an awesome website where strangers drew pictures of other stranger’s Facebook profiles, is something we should all totally get behind, we definitely didn’t mean this: Joey Jordan took one of those random Facebook profile pictures and got it tattooed on his butt cheek. Now some guy’s face from Brazil…

Social Media Casey Chan

Shooting Challenge: Inked

Taking photos of other people’s art is generally not good photographic practice. But what about when art melds with the human form? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to photograph a tattoo. The Challenge Take a photograph in which a tattoo is the focus. The Method Most tattoo photography is pretty horrible. Some dude…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Iron Man battles his most obsessed fanboy in new IM3 deleted scene

Iron Man 3 doesn’t hit DVD and Blu-ray until September 24th, but deleted scenes and extras are leaking out — like these alternate versions of Tony Stark’s encounter with his #1 fan Gary (played by Happy Endings’ Adam Pally). I’m pretty Stark would rather deal with Whiplash again than look at that tattoo. https://gizmodo.com/first-iron-man-3-deleted-scene-shows-the-mandarin-on-th-1124038015

io9 Rob Bricken

Tattoo shop comes up with a legitimately clever use for QR codes

QR codes are one of those technologies where the execution just hasn’t lived up to the concept. But every now and then, someone comes up with a cool application of those little black squares. Berrge Tattoo in Istanbul uses this newspaper ad to make sure their tattoo artist applicants at least have the fine motor…

io9 Lauren Davis

Tattoo

Would You Let This ‘Automatic Tattooing Device’ Stab You Repeatedly?

Genetic Analysis of ‘Ötzi the Iceman’ Reveals Ancient Mummy’s Ancestry

Painless Tattoos Might One Day Be a Thing Thanks to These Ink Filled Microscopic Needles

Scientists Have Invented Light-Up OLED Tattoos

Tattoos Rumored To Break The Apple Watch’s Wrist Detection

This Guy is Practically a Cyborg With His 3D Tattoo

There’s Still Plenty Of Time To Celebrate World Pangolin Day!

Woman with most extreme body modifications just got even more extreme

Video: How removing tattoos with lasers works

Now This Is An Epic Little Mermaid Chest Tattoo

Keep Your Cookbooks Clean With a Temporary Recipe Tattoo on Your Arm

What getting a tattoo looks like in super slow motion

Shoot Electricity From Your Skull With These Great Silk Screen Prints

This mind-bending optical illusion is freaking the hell out of me

How the Art of Tattoo Has Colored World History

Oh wow, it took me a second to realize this pen is actually a tattoo

Some Guy Got a Random Guy’s Facebook Profile Pic Tattooed to His Butt

Shooting Challenge: Inked

Iron Man battles his most obsessed fanboy in new IM3 deleted scene

Tattoo shop comes up with a legitimately clever use for QR codes

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

Zach Cregger Recruits Second Zach for His Aunt Gladys Spinoff

Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

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AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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Would You Let This ‘Automatic Tattooing Device’ Stab You Repeatedly?

Genetic Analysis of ‘Ötzi the Iceman’ Reveals Ancient Mummy’s Ancestry

Painless Tattoos Might One Day Be a Thing Thanks to These Ink Filled Microscopic Needles

Scientists Have Invented Light-Up OLED Tattoos

Tattoos Rumored To Break The Apple Watch’s Wrist Detection

This Guy is Practically a Cyborg With His 3D Tattoo

There’s Still Plenty Of Time To Celebrate World Pangolin Day!

Woman with most extreme body modifications just got even more extreme

Video: How removing tattoos with lasers works

Now This Is An Epic​ Little Mermaid Chest Tattoo

Keep Your Cookbooks Clean With a Temporary Recipe Tattoo on Your Arm

What getting a tattoo looks like in super slow motion

Shoot Electricity From Your Skull With These Great Silk Screen Prints

This mind-bending optical illusion is freaking the hell out of me

How the Art of Tattoo Has Colored World History

Oh wow, it took me a second to realize this pen is actually a tattoo

Some Guy Got a Random Guy’s Facebook Profile Pic Tattooed to His Butt

Shooting Challenge: Inked

Iron Man battles his most obsessed fanboy in new IM3 deleted scene

Tattoo shop comes up with a legitimately clever use for QR codes

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

Zach Cregger Recruits Second Zach for His Aunt Gladys Spinoff

Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in April 2026

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Now This Is An Epic Little Mermaid Chest Tattoo