Inject each color in a grid as pixels, then use an LED array on a flexible backing to reprogram each pixel and change the image. Kinda like e-ink in the sense that it's a display that only needs power to change the image.
Years ago I wrote a short sci fi story where a guy invents and open sources a system like crispr (before crispr existed) and takes it to burning man and gives everybody gene therapy to make glowing cephalopod tattoos that can appear/disappear/change color/all the other things that cuttlefish can do.
The technology ends up being repurposed for all sorts of medicines/recreational purposes.
Only after it's released, it turns out it causes some fatal disease a year later, which is only noticed because Burning Man was empty next year.
I think your smugness is unwarranted. Some people get tattoos on a lark, and grow out of their meanings and eventually remove them. Some people think long and hard about their tattoos and they become personally commissioned works of art.
I have two gorgeous sleeves with deep meaning, that I put hours and hours of pain in to. But they are for me. I love the art, I love carrying that art. I don't care about how they scan to others.
It has nothing to do with being cool or fitting in.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 24.8 ms ] threadI'm sure there are a bunch of differences, but fun to think about perhaps.
The technology ends up being repurposed for all sorts of medicines/recreational purposes.
Only after it's released, it turns out it causes some fatal disease a year later, which is only noticed because Burning Man was empty next year.
I’ve noticed with some amusement that several celebrities ( and non-celebrities ) have publicly announced and explained their recent tattoo removals.
It reminds me of Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches.
I have two gorgeous sleeves with deep meaning, that I put hours and hours of pain in to. But they are for me. I love the art, I love carrying that art. I don't care about how they scan to others.
It has nothing to do with being cool or fitting in.