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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. Tattoo looks really really bad by TracerJPN_USMC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it just me, or does that tattoo look really bad? It looks like something a little kid would draw on some paper, why would somebody want that on their body for the rest of their lives??

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  2. Tattoos are artwork by Moderation+abuser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The quastion is, do you want an original hand made one, or a printout, permanently etched into your skin.

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  3. Gee, and the tattoos are FREE? by MacAndrew · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How generous! They always give out the samples for free. And how much does the robotic tattoo remover cost? (See Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches .)

    Who the heck volunteers for these things? No matter how confident you are in a complete stranger covered with screwed-up tattoos in a booth, do you know tattoos are murder to get rid of? I guess the risk looks pretty small compared to a robotic vasectomy or X-piercing machine, powered by an OS popularly associated with corrupted address books.

    And while you're here, we need some volunteers to test the experimental anthrax vaccine... No, it's OK, 3 out of 4 sheep live to say it's da bomb.

  4. Ananova by DoorFrame · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does anyone else disbelieve every single story they read on Ananova? Just wondering. As far as I can tell they're one step up from the Weekly World News.

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  5. Re:Heres the problem, by Fnkmaster · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Eh. If you read the article you'll see that it CLAIMS that the tattoo-bot creates its own designs. As in some sort of wacky design generation procedure. You don't actually get to pick a design at all. The idea of a tattoobot is kinda cool in some ways, but the idea that I'd let a pseudorandomly generated design that a fucking Palm Pilot came up with be permanently etched on my skin is so laughable as to not even qualify for being funny.


    In short, this story is either pure fiction, stretched from truth until it was barely recognizable or just outright bollocks. I'm sure you could find volunteers to get tattoos from a machine if they could pick it, but who is gonna wander by a booth at some show and say, gee, it seems like a great idea to get a randomly generated crooked-ass-R shape tattooed onto my arm permanently. Might as well let a meat grinder make a random design on your hand.