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Palm OS Powered Tattooing Robot Debuts in Vienna
Makarand writes "Ananova has an article on the world's first tattooing robot.
An Austrian electrician, after being left with some permanent reminders
of his tattooing robot project, has unveiled his creation at a hi-tech
fair in Vienna.
He said that he had to test it on himself to get the robot do the right
thing and has not recieved any complaints from volunteers who got a tattoo
for free at the trade fair."
Who didn't predict that robots would eventually take over art as well as everything else? Next thing you know there'll be street robots doing oil paintings for cash.
Who would want to tatoo a robot?
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Will those tatoos be in 15 or 16 bit colour? ;)
So is the robot gruff, look like a biker and makes fun of your tattoo choice as well as laugh when you scream?
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A Sadistic PalmOS powered Etcha Sketch! This really is a bit of a leg-puller isn't it?
I mean, a guy with the genius(?) to come up with a robot like this, doesn't have brains enough to do the development and testing on a leg of lamb first??
"I haven't had any complaints yet." said Mr Passath.
Yes, thats because all your customers are lying on the floor with severed arteries.
"Note to self: Must write limb-diameter-compensation algorhythm....."
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
It would go something like this.
First write in your design...ok
(I draw a dragon or something and then press whatever button)
now tattooing....done
Look at tattoo and see that it says,
"1) pick up kids
2) pay bills
3) apt. with proctologist"
oh, no!
i've been telling a lot of people as of late that my software project is just plain painful.
;-P
i stand corrected. this is a REAL painful software project. what kind of version tracking does it employ? does it write something like version 0.82 in the corner of each tattoo with each build?
so does then does this guy have like 82 different beta tests on his arms/ elsewhere? what exactly does a buffer overflow/ divide by zero crash in tattoo form FEEL like? insert your own joke here.
nevermind, i don't want to know.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Just in case anyone is interested in purchasing one of these you may find this useful.
ERR01 - "EAGLE? I thought you said BEAGLE."
ERR02 - "We're all out of red, so I used pink."
ERR03 - "There are 2 O's in Bob, right?"
ERR04 - "Sorry, sir, your chest will only hold the bottle dinghy."
ERR05 - "SEGFAULT"
ERR06 - "Anything else you want to say? You've got plenty of room back here."
ERR07 - "I'll bet you can't tell I've never done this before."
ERR08 - "The flag's all done and, you know, the folds of fat make a nice waving effect."
Disclaimer - adapted from this source
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Printer ink cartridge empty. Using secondary output; tattoo device.
Look a monkey!
This is really something I would need on the road.
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now has "hello, world!" tattooed onto his arm?
Or you get a bunch of gibberish
that quickly covers you entire body.
You realize that you forgot to install the Postscript module.
And tatoos the Palm logo on your butt...
I stick to walls...
Will someone please start a sourceforge project to get this ported to Windows? I can't wait to see people with BSOD permanently displayed on their bodies.
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Ok, to qualify this... I would not let this particular little robot tattoo me, simply because it is far too primitive (I mean a 320x240 resolution?... uhhh, no thanks I'll pass)
..... Oh man I need to lay down...
Now the merits of this idea, since this thing is a robot you will never have to worry about it getting drunk and fscking up your tattoo. It is capable of working very quickly, think about getting a tattoo that would normally take hours to do in only a few minutes (This would be ideal for those who don't care for pain as much as some people seem to)
The tattoo will not just be a duplicate copy as you could write the software to randomly modify a few small factors such as particular color shades and small design elements to continue to have the one of a kind feel to the tattoo. I would most likely choose to use this with adobe Photoshop.
Ok, how would this be done? I have a few ideas as to the particulars. This guy has already created an interface between the robotic mechanism and the command unit (palm in this case) so changing out the command interface shouldn't really be a big deal, I would hook up something like a 1.8 Ghz desktop to this thing (if portability was a concern use a laptop). For the software end of things I would choose to use Adobe Photoshop as that way only four passes would be necessary to render a full color tattoo (CYMK) using Photoshop to separate the color channels.
And now for Johnny Carson's top ten reasons to have a robot do your tattoo...
1. It won't try to steal money from your wallet when you pass out from the pain.
2. It doesn't smell like camel cigarettes and cheap whiskey.
3. You won't have to listen to it tell really bad stories.
4. Yeah the equipment was sterilized, but when was the last time the artist was bathed?
5. The robot will never puke on you in the middle of a tattoo.
6. You can be sure the robot isn't going to try to get you drunk and take you home for a wild night of tattoos, sex, and odd things done with barnyard animals.
7. Who wants a tattoo to take four hours, this baby can do them in four minutes.
8. No bad breath in your face.
9. I'm pretty sure the robot doesn't do cocaine...
10. The robot will not be giving your girlfriend lewd looks while working on your tattoo and making fun of you when you scream, and telling you your a pansy ass bitch, and asking her why she would stay with a bitch, and it won't ask her if she wants a real robot, and
heh, I guess this does have some advantages... If only it was a bit more advanced (although not "bender" advanced)
(leaves rest to reader's imagination)