This tattooing robot draws perfect artworks on your skin
A team of French designers have adapted a 3D printer and turned it
into a tattooing machine that can draw any image onto your skin with
pinpoint accuracy.
The machine combines a tattooist's needle and a
Makerbot 3D printer. A piece of software lets you take any image -
whether it’s a photo or a sketch - and then insert your limb into the
printer.
The needle will then automatically move across the skin,
puncturing the skin up to 150 times per second, to create the permanent
design.
The printing head features a sensor that detects the
surface of the skin. This means that the needle follows the contours of
the body - only ever piercing the top layers of skin.
The machine was created by design company Appropriate Audiences, made up of Pierre Emm, Piotr Widelka and Johan Da Silviera.
They tested the machine initially on artificial silicone skin, before
moving on to a human victim who got a simple circle tattoo.
It
was tricky to make sure that the machine could draw a tattoo on a curved
surface - after all, humans are not made in straight lines.
The tattoo machine isn't perfect yet, but Appropriate Audiences is
trying to develop an off-the-shelf version for tattoo artists to
experiment with.
A machine like this one could mean an end to hilariously bad portrait tattoos
We’d like to think this sort of device might mean an end to
hilariously bad tattoo portraits. Instead of having to hope that the
tattooist has the skills to portray your darling child, dead grandparent
or favourite celebrity, the tattoo machine could guarantee and accurate
portrait.
In fact you might even be able to take a selfie and then instantly get that printed onto your skin, should you so wish.
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