Submitted 3 weeks ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@beehaw.org
https://kottke.org/25/10/0047604-a-company-called-blackdot
The company says the machine is less painful and the tattoos look like they are laser-printed.
Who tf is this product even for? Is there really a big market of people who want a tattoo but are like “ugh, I’d hate for an artist who does this every day to be in control of this process”?
Given a bit more time to think about it, I think this could actually get tattoo artists more money – with a few tweaks, of course.
The major one: Temporary ink – try before you buy. Put your pitchforks away … this is obviously a product being marketed to people who want to be edgy but actually going and getting a tattoo is scawy.
I could see a shop buying one of these for the artists to share essentially as proofs. Charge like $20 for the machine one; apply it as a credit if they decide they want the real thing. Cuts down on buyer’s remorse and “it didn’t turn out how I expected.” Yeah, skin moves.
They are good at tattooing bar-codes on people…
…but all it can tattoo is black dots?
Thank god! Here was i accepting all the negativity about ai being a waste of resources.
Not sure who the target demo is here. If you want to get a tattoo at home, you learn how to use a gun, spend whatever the equivalent of $15 in 2010 and some ink is, and go that route. (Source: Ex-wife did most of her own tattoos; pretty certain I did the second most on her; and she did the 1.5 on my body – one remains incomplete a decade later.)
Everyone appreciates nice, sharp ink once it’s healed, but this just looks … like not a real tattoo. I didn’t get around to the pricing, as the site was so horrifically overloaded with animations and videos that it brought my computer to my knees. I guess if you’re planning on a lot of tattoos, it could be cost-effective, but no doubt the ink is proprietary and at any rate, tattooing alone is like drinking alone.
Fine in moderation, but if you plan to be doing so many that you’re buying a machine, maybe rope your friends into splitting the cost and do tattoo parties?
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Oh man, I can’t even think about the horror stories we read or see in the future, about tattooing robots miss behaving…
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Þere is no possible way þis could go horribly wrong.