Tag: INK

Inspired by raindrops, a German software engineer created some dazzling photographs of ink bouncing off the surface of water, a phenomenon that would normally be invisible to the naked eye. According to The Daily Mail, amateur photographer Tobias Brauening rigged a circuit board to trigger a camera shutter, and to open three valves at the same moment. Each valve drops a different color of ink ...

If you were planning on traveling with a suitcase full of printer cartridges, we've got some bad news. The TSA has decided to ban printer and toner cartridges that weigh more than 16 ounces from both carry-on and checked luggage on all flights bound for U.S. destinations. But it shouldn't surprise you to learn of the new prohibition, considering the bomb scare two weeks ago. Explosive devices ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. What's life without mastering the speed run through the Facility ('Goldeneye') or finding an old friend on the castle's roof ('Mario 64'). Den of Geek rounds up the ...

Tattoos were once the exclusive domain of shady types, usually of a sea-borne persuasion. By now, of course, they've gone totally mainstream, but that doesn't mean some ink aficionados with geeky interests aren't doing their best to make things a little more niche again. Enter the geeky tattoo, a trend that's funny now -- but for how long? Above is one example, a tattoo that shows some HTML code ...

Make no mistake, there are quite a few sophisticated ways to monitor one's glucose levels, but we're pretty certain we've never seen an approach as simple and as bodacious as this. Massachusetts-based Draper Laboratories has stumbled upon a new embeddable nanosensor that could, at least in theory, eliminate those painful pricks endured today by so many diabetics. The so-called "injectable ...

There is no more permanent way to fly your geek flag than to get a dorktastical tattoo that lets everyone know -- you've never had a girlfriend. Pi to 80 decimal points? Ctrl, Alt, and Del keys? People actually got these permanently etched into their skin. In ink! The worst, by far, is the brothers with matching marks. One has a guitar and binary code for "rock," the other a flaming 20 sided die ...