Are you certain that you'll have no ragrets about this decision? Tattooing is permanent unless you want to undergo expensive laser treatments.

Just to be safe, it may be worth getting yourself inked in a new type of disappearing ink. A company called Ephemeral has developed ink that breaks down after a year. Developer Anthony Lam explained to TechCrunch how it works:

“Tattoo inks today are permanent because of the fact that the dye molecules are too big for your body’s immune system to take away,” explains co-founder Anthony Lam. “By using smaller molecules, we’ve encapsulated them inside this spherical structure that’s big enough that your immune system doesn’t take it away. But when you remove it, it essentially eats away one of the components and the dye molecules are flushed out.”

The company is currently testing the ink on pigs to make sure that it works. It hopes to price the ink at $50-100 for an average sized tattoo.

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Annelies van Overbeek has a combination of talents: makeup, wardrobing, and facial expression. When combined, she can perfectly mimic the great stars of the past, including actress Audrey Hepburn, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and Vivian Leigh from Gone with the Wind. She doesn't use Photoshop or a sophisticated camera--just her smartphone.

You want to take a selfie, but don't want all of the work that goes with it? The UnReal Selfie Stick has an automatically extending arm. Just press buttons to move it outward or inward.

You want your hair to flutter in the wind, but there's no breeze? The UnReal Selfie Stick has fans that create the same visual effect.

How about lights? Day or night, the UnReal Selfie Stick and provide ideal light framing for your beauty.

For 43 years, Disney's animated retelling of the Robin Hood story has charmed adults and children. But it might have frightened the little ones had the producers stuck to the original plan.

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Retroist brings us this recording of the original voice narration along with the storyboards for an alternate ending. In it, Robin was badly wounded in battle. Prince John was about to kill the helpless Robin with his knife when King Richard suddenly returned from abroad and brought a swift end to Prince John's tyrrany.

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The latest, hottest food trend on Instagram is #RainbowSushi. It's sushi that packs a visual as well as gustatory punch. The meat, vegetables, rice, and seaweed sparkle with vibrant, pastel colors from the rainbow. Often the rice is dyed to add to the effect.

How many sit-ups could you do in an hour and a half? How about 10 minutes? Or just until your body gave out?

Kayleigh Bass of Kansas City, Missouri is a high-endurance sit-up producing machine. At only 10 years old, she completed 2,110 of them in 90 minutes, smashing the previous record of 2001 sit-ups. Even though she almost threw up, Kayleigh kept going until she completed this incredible goal for Project Fit America, a non-profit organization that promotes physical fitness. Fox 4 Kansas City reports:

“It’s a mind thing. If you think about it, you can do it and you’ll make it,” Kyleigh said.

Kyleigh was already on the board with 800 sit-ups but she wanted to be at the very top. So P.E teacher, Bill Lentz, helped train her to reach that goal.

“I like to think I am an active person, but I’m inspired. She’s my hero and hopefully I can work out half as hard as she does,” said Lentz.

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And as you can see from the cat's expression, she had a wonderful time.

Imgur member caroline120006 says that her brother, Sam Steingard, took their cat, Ruby, to the prom. Unfortunately for Ruby, she was just his backup plan. He only asked her out after failing to find a human companion.

Nonetheless, she dolled up in a pink dress and sneakers that match Sam's tie. You can see more photos of them together at the Daily Mail.

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What have you done to scar your child for life? Imgur member mommybrittaney hasn't done anything permanent. But when her son got a deep cut on his forehead, she made it look beautiful by adding a couple more strokes with a marker and some costuming to turn him into Harry Potter. The Today show quotes her:

He was so embarrassed about his scratch and didn't want to leave the house and be seen with it that dressing him up as Harry Potter was my first instinct.

It was a good one! Now all he has to do is wait for a letter.

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Stand back, folks, because we now have the hottest look of the summer season. Get yourself a snail helmet by Etsy seller High Noon Creations. It's a urethane rubber shell that fits snugly over your head. It does not come with antennae, which is a serious limitation when, on the dating market, you could be competing with people who do have antennae.

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Photographer Murad Osman became famous for his series of romantic photos showing him following his girlfriend (and later wife) Nataly Osman on adventures around the world.

Who could resist the call to travel with one's love to famous, scenic places on all seven continents? 

Forrest Lu can.

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Slur says nothing, but he makes everyone uncomfortable whenever he starts fighting. He has to get with the times. This kind of comic style went out with the 60s.

Nicholas Gurewitch updates his gloriously funny Perry Bible Fellowship rarely. But each time, he produces a gem.

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Thomas Manning has every reason to smile. He didn't have a lot of hope after losing his penis to cancer. But after a 15-hour operation on May 8 and 9 in Boston, he now has a donor penis transplanted.

Some men might feel too embarrassed to speak out about this kind of problem. But Manning isn't holding back. The New York Times reports:

Mr. Manning welcomed questions and said he wanted to speak out publicly to help dispel the shame and stigma associated with genital cancers and injuries, and to let other men know there was hope of having normal anatomy restored.

“Don’t hide behind a rock,” he said.

This kind of operation is enormously difficult. Manning's doctors note that only 2 other penis transplants have been performed, one in China, which failed, and another in South Africa.

The primary goal of penis transplantation in the US is to help the 1,367 veterans who suffered genital injuries in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Times quotes Manning's surgeon Dr. Curtis L. Cetrulo:

Veterans are a major focus of transplant programs in the United States because suicide rates are exceptionally high in soldiers with severe damage to the genitals and urinary tract, Dr. Cetrulo said. “They’re 18- to 20-year-old guys, and they feel they have no hope of intimacy or a sexual life,” he said. “They can’t even go to the bathroom standing up.”

Given the psychological toll, he said, a penis transplant can be lifesaving.

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It came into the world as the drop fuel tank on a P-94 interceptor jet. Then it entered the "Trash Mahal"-- the workshop of artist Nemo Gould. He takes discarded objects and turns them into amazing moving sculptures, such as giant squid robots and alien visitors. Now, for his latest work, Gould presents a huge, intricate, robotic megalodon.

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The developers of OrCam want the 280 million people around the world with significant visual impairment to be able to read printed text. So they developed a camera that fits onto a pair of glasses. When the user points at text within the camera's view, the attached computer reads it aloud into a bone conductor next to the ear.

Researchers at the University of California Davis Health System found that OrCam was highly effective in making printed text accessible to people who can't see. The Daily Mail reports:

Dr Mark Mannis and colleagues carried out research on 12 people with low vision – six men and six women with an average age of 62. [...]

After using it for a week, all of the subjects were able to carry out at least nine of the 10 items on the test and said they found it easy to use and would consider using it in their daily lives.

The authors performed a separate sub-analysis of seven patients who were using other low-vision aids and found that their performance on the test was better when using the device, as well.

Each OrCam costs about $2,500-$3,500 USD.

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Play J is an independently-owned ice cream truck in New York City. It offers a novel product: soft-service ice cream in hollow J-shaped tubes made of corn meal. When Jamie Stall tried it last year, you could get either chocolate, vanilla, or half and half.