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CncTattoo   (+2, -1)  [vote for, against]
Computer numerical controlled tattoo machine

Get a tattoo from a robot.

The device would consist of a high definition dot-matrix print head, positioning rig and of course a computer.
-- evilpenguin, Jul 03 2012

Laser Tattoo http://www.instruct...om/id/Laser-Tattoo/
Similar concept, using a laser cutter [ytk, Jul 03 2012]

I can see the results now:

"Evilpenguin loves Cynth.. PAGEFAULT ERROR"
-- AusCan531, Jul 03 2012


"The image is larger than the printable area. Some clipping will occur. Proceed / Cancel."
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 03 2012


//The image is larger than the printable area. Some clipping will occur.

Of the image, or the human?
-- not_morrison_rm, Jul 03 2012


You'd also want to include a camera so that it can compare work in progress with the original, and to offset in case the subject moved.
-- tatterdemalion, Jul 03 2012


The idea is preheated in fiction, early William Gibson.
-- normzone, Jul 03 2012


Also isn't there usually a curvature issue to be dealt with? Also wasn't this in "Idiocracy"?
-- MisterQED, Jul 03 2012


//Also wasn't this in "Idiocracy"//

Yes, the sceen where he gets tattooed against his will by a machine that looked like a bottle return machine. Tattooed a barcode on his wrist. Two things, that machine worked on one part of the body, the wrist. My machine can position itself any which way needed. And 2, damn you for making me think about the movie Idiocracy...
-- evilpenguin, Jul 03 2012



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