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Palm OS Powered Tattooing Robot Debuts in Vienna

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the humans-now-completely-useless dept.

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."

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  1. A PalmOS powered tatooing robot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will those tatoos be in 15 or 16 bit colour? ;)

  2. Hrmm by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  3. Now in development: Leg pulling robot! by reality-bytes · · Score: 5, Funny

    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....."

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  4. the tattoo by LittleBigScript · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  5. i stand corrected by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    i've been telling a lot of people as of late that my software project is just plain painful.

    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. ;-P

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  6. Error code list by Mattygfunk1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  7. Error! by halftrack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Printer ink cartridge empty. Using secondary output; tattoo device.

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  8. So this poor man... by JustKidding · · Score: 5, Funny

    now has "hello, world!" tattooed onto his arm?

  9. Re:the Postscript Dump by cyber_rigger · · Score: 5, Funny


    Or you get a bunch of gibberish
    that quickly covers you entire body.

    You realize that you forgot to install the Postscript module.