Tag: TATTOO

T-Pain has added a Facebook homage to his tattoo collection. The star got the phrase "you don't have to like me," tattooed on his bicep, with the "like" in the form of the iconic Facebook button, inspiring me to get my own social networking tattoo. A Twitter one seems perfect... just as soon as I figure out how to visualize self-importance and white noise. ...

Joseph Eric Williams knows who he is, and he clearly wants everyone else to know who he is, too. Why else would he have the phrase 'I'm Me' tattooed across his forehead? Unfortunately for him, though, that tattoo also helped police identify him as a suspected iPhone thief. According to police in Broward, Florida, 19-year-old Williams is believed to have stolen iPhones from as many as 15 ...

When there's a will for a hideous piece of skin art, there's a way. A detainee at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in West Sussex, Britain was recently caught with one of the most inventive PlayStation hacks we've ever seen. After gutting the console, the prisoner attached the motor to a ballpoint pen with a sharpened tip. Et voilà! A DIY tattoo machine! Sadly, the prisoner's gadget ...

Share As pacemakers become increasingly connected via the Web, doctors and patients must figure out how to protect these devices from security breaches. Some attempts include using ultrasound waves and developing 'cloaking' devices, among other techniques. But, according to Popular Science, Microsoft Research (.PDF) believes that tattooing the device's password onto the patient's skin in ...

Ah, human progress. It's long been possible to get drunk with your friends and make a permanent mistake on your body on spring break in Mexico, but soon you'll be able to do it electronically, too. That's right, we are entering the era of the LED tattoo. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have been developing micro-thin, flexible, silicon electronics that have already been ...

We've seen a lot of geeky tattoos: a flaming 20-sided die, a Pac-Man maze on the rear, and, of course, the mind-boggling Born Oppenheimer Approximation. Still, if we had to choose, the award for "worst tattoo ever" would go to the above 'Shoryuken' brand. For 'Street Fighter' newbies, the Shoryuken, or 'Dragon Punch,' is an easily executed trademark move used by two characters in the game. To ...

Sometimes, a picture says it all. This one, though, might need some explaining. According to the Next Web, the words inked on the man's arm are what appear on a Windows machine's monitor when it crashes. For geeks the world over, the 'Blue Screen of Death' is a terrifying sight to behold, and this unnamed young man decided he would like to have it permanently displayed -- slightly off-center ...

Now that science is cool again, showing off your science tattoos appears to be all the rage. This fact is evidenced by Discover's positively epic compilation of science-related tats (23 pages of them, people!), which covers everything from DNA strands to the Mobius Strip (pictured above). Even better, all of the entries are accompanied by statements from their owners. For instance, one ...

Nerd-tattoos are usually the laughingstock of the Internet, with barcodes and Star Trek characters becoming the anchors and 'Mom' of the 21st century, so it's only fitting to give credit where it is deserved. WiiNoob scoured high and low to find Super Mario Bros tats that are worthy of the Nintendo legacy, and fortunately, they found a handful that aren't cringe inducing. In fact, some have ...

Pervasive advertisements bombard consumers at every turn through Internet pop-ups, e-mails, billboards, buses, the media, and, in increasing amounts, skin. When boxers started printing casino names on their backs for bouts a few years ago, the idea of body ads seemed excessive and transparent. But the tactic has now become prevalent and expected. Goodyear has, in the past, offered a free set of ...

For those interested in getting their asses kicked by one or perhaps even many dumb jocks, here's a three-part tattoo you might consider getting: the Born Oppenheimer Approximation, its equivalent in the form of a 3-D Schrödinger Equation, and the solution to the equation itself in the form of a Schrödinger Equation. It's here modeled by a dude named Joe, who recently had the trifecta ...

Verizon's Netbook Drops On May 17th The HP Mini 1151NR, Verizon's first offering in the netbook game, will be available on May 17th. For $200, plus monthly data fees ($40-$60) with a two-year contract after a mail in rebate, you'll be able to surf the Web on your own tiny laptop anywhere Verizon is available. The computer has a wireless modem built-in, so there's no bulky USB dongle waiting to ...

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 ...

Back in the old days, tattoos were given out in dingy, dark, back-alley parlors by intimidating practitioners whose art you wouldn't dare question. Since then, it's safe to say the process of getting inked has gone mainstream -- but it hasn't exactly gone high-tech. That's changing, though. Many artists still hand-draw their stencils, or copy them straight out of a book, but, according to the ...

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 ...