CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
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Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#2This is neat for small flash pieces. I’m not sure I want to imagine the process for getting a half sleeve of one’s own design applied this way, fifteen millimeter diameter at a time.
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#3Kind of scary, imagine someone putting an ad in that and placing it on random people without them noticing.
Obviously doesn’t really make sense because if it’s an ad you also know who did it but somehow that’s the first thing that came to mind for me.
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#4This is neat for small flash pieces. I’m not sure I want to imagine the process for getting a half sleeve of one’s own design applied this way, fifteen millimeter diameter at a time.
I don't see why in the future this couldn't be applied to a semi-flexible backing. Probably will be fragile and hard to make but seems possible.
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#5This is neat for small flash pieces. I’m not sure I want to imagine the process for getting a half sleeve of one’s own design applied this way, fifteen millimeter diameter at a time.
I don't see why in the future this couldn't be applied to a semi-flexible backing. Probably will be fragile and hard to make but seems possible.
I think that’s the direction the company will take if they are financially successful with their early products. This might actually be a really good technology to license out instead of trying to build a market alone.
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#6Capitalism uglifying the world that tiny bit more, so long as we can squeeze some more $$$ out of poor impressionable people...
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#7Capitalism uglifying the world that tiny bit more, so long as we can squeeze some more $$$ out of poor impressionable people...
"Other people like something that I don't like! Oh no!"
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#8Capitalism uglifying the world that tiny bit more, so long as we can squeeze some more $$$ out of poor impressionable people...
I want one with the OpenAI logo!
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#9Neat concept, but the density of needles seems quite low for tattoing, and that is likely why the linework of the tattoos in those pictures is so blurry. While getting tattooed, the needle will puncture skin and deposit ink typically 1500+ times per minute. The most specific that this article gets is saying the patches have "hundreds" of needles. At the high end (999 needles in a patch) this means that this patch has substantially lower resolution than a single minute of being tattooed.
So, it's a neat gimmick, but it'll need a lot of work to be much more than that. It'd be neat for some small pieces to fill space I guess.
And a bit of a tangent, but I also have a pretty strong needle aversion, and I have not found that getting tattooed "feels" like there are any needles involved in the process. I know logically that it is a needle, but subjective process (the pain and visuals) really bears no resemblance to a needle.
Re: CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
#10Kind of scary, imagine someone putting an ad in that and placing it on random people without them noticing. Obviously doesn’t really make sense because if it’s an ad you also know who did it but somehow that’s the first thing that came to mind for me.
What I imagine is drunk youngsters tattooing a dick on the forehead of their passed out friend as a prank.