Tattoos for the Blind

• Adam Stanhope
  October 17th, 2007 at 9:45 am

  Smallpox!

• shihui
  October 17th, 2007 at 10:51 am

  feeling that might give me goosebumps. not my type of thing. =x

• Aramax
  October 17th, 2007 at 11:05 am

  I can’t help it…

  “Wow, you’re so extreme with that tatoo in your face… I have trouble reading it but it awesome!”

  =D

• Sid Morrison
  October 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am

  They look like zits that badly need harvesting.

• Jerse
  October 17th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

  It’s read from the top down and says “Sun”

• Vonskippy
  October 17th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

  Why didn’t she just invent keyed pheromones, then they could sniff each others “whatever” to revel the hidden message (kind of like what dogs do).

  Apparently the art world now has it’s modern equivalent of rap music (and just to be clear - that’s not a good thing).

• Weakly
  October 17th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

  This is a stupid idea. Oh, it’s from Wired. Braille me unsurprised.

• MrPumpernickel
  October 17th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

  Calling it a tattoo is somewhat of a incorrect use of the word tattoo though. What she describes is an implant, implants are implants, tattoos are tattoos.

  Either way it seems like a quite backwards thing to do when you have options such as scarification instead. They would require less invasive procedures, create better results and be fairly permanent. Implants need to be released at some point, it’s important to point out that the outmost majority of all implants (subdermal and especially transdermal) are temporary and the amount of time you can keep them can vary quite a lot from person to person.

• MrPumpernickel
  October 17th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

  Oh…and come to think of it, it would possibly be better to implant a rectangular piece of teflon with raised hemispheres on the surface to be read through the skin. Since if you only implant spheres they can travel out of alignment before they heal in place and ruin the entire idea. Hence a thin piece of teflon would be better. However, you’d still have to place it under the dermis so the raised effect would not be very pronounced on most places on the body (because of the thickness of the dermis) unless you use hemispheres far larger than what’s in regular braille text.

• Alex
  October 18th, 2007 at 2:00 am

  At first I thought she implanted a LEGO block underneath her skin!

• Jww
  October 18th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

  wow, I have never seen anything like that… Wait, yes I have!
  http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Subdermal_Implant

  I hate when people think they ahve invented something new…

• choggie
  October 19th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

  I don’t want anybody else
  When I think about you I touch myself
  Ooh I don’t want anybody else
  Oh no, oh no, oh no

• Megan
  December 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

  Its a good idea, beter than that sequin in the eye idea by faaar. If itts safe then why not, its not my body they are doing it on.

• jo
  February 4th, 2008 at 8:33 am

  its a gud idea 4 art as far as art goes its not as if they r trina say they invented implants dey jus showin what can be done wif different materials! ART
  well done

• Yoda
  April 10th, 2008 at 11:30 am

  This person is a fraud. I looked on her site, not one idea she came up with is hers. I’ve seen them all before. What a loser

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