How much do you love your LEGOS? Enough to get a tattoo of the divet marks in your finger? If you’re LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya, the answer is a no brainer. You know, it’s actually pretty clever and cool. Who wants to head down to the tattoo shop with me…? Anyone? BoingBoing > Neatorama > New...
Tattoos. Gadget blog. What’s the point? Science. Read on. Criminals often use tattoos as branding for their chosen gang. Tattoos and criminals can also be used as a “slate” or fleshy paper to send messages to other individual and gangs via tatooed on messages. Previously, criminals who were being targeted by law enforcement because evidence linked to a tattoo simply got a new tattoo covering up or modifying the old one so that the police had no way...
Tattoos haven’t changed much over the decades. It’s still essentially the same basic concept: A needle moving in and our of your skin with some sort of ink or dye on the tip. Other forms of body modifications such as piercings and implanting metallic objects ahve added a twist to the whole process, but a “tattoo” is still the same. Rebels and body artists of tomorrow will find LED tattoos the next big craze. The idea may seem crazy at first, but...
Too small. Excuse me? If you were wondering why HTC went with a resistive screen on the HTC Tattoo instead of the much more finger friendly capacitive screen, try to push the theories of cost from your minds (we all know it) and fixate on HTC’s official response via Twitter which simply stated that the screen is too small. At smaller sizes capacitive screens will register more miss clicks. Really? Too small at 2.8″? I’m sure the 0.2-0.4 inches of...
Like many hobbies, addictions can grow and develop from a small crush to a wide following consuming the minds and actions of wide swaths of people. Techie’s in particular can grow quite attached to gadgets, hardware, software, a tech company, or even characters in techie based products such as video game characters. While at the time, a certain tattoo may seem like a great way to show off your geekiness. However, after the ink settles and you step back look at what...
