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Posted on Jun 20, 2014

Permanent Tattoos From A 3D Printer!

designers in Paris France have developed a fully automated machine that give you a permanent tattoo!

by WickedBodyJewelz

Community Brand Publisher

The time has to a point in our lives where we use machines for just about anything, so much so that some machines even have replaced people's jobs. THEY TURK ER JOBS! (had to say it)

Now technology has leaked into the tattoo world.

In October 2013, a teams of designers from the famous design school in Paris, ENSCI les Ateliers, have developed a computer guided machine that can tattoo right onto a person!

(This reminds me of of the scene in the movie Idiocracy where people had to get a barcode tattoo by placing their arm onto a machine.)

The designers used 3D imaging software to create and implement designs that the printer can draw.

The original design of this machine was intended to draw designs with a pen instead of tattooing. However being the scholars that they are, they took their self-drawing machine one step further and "hacked" a tattoo gun in place of the pen.

Of course like any well thought experiment, human trials were not conducted right off the bat. Fake skin comprised of silicone was used to tattoo on. A simple circle design is perfect because it shows the great precision and flawless-ness of the machine

Once they were confident enough that their machine would work on humans, many people volunteered to be the first human to be tattooed by machine

An inner tube was used to isolated a portion of the arm so that the machine could grasp the spot easier.

Check out this amazing video that was put together that shows how this was done and how the machine is used.