The company says the machine is less painful and the tattoos look like they are laser-printed.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    10·
    3 days ago

    Oh man, I can’t even think about the horror stories we read or see in the future, about tattooing robots miss behaving…

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    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”?

  • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    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, more like henna than a tattoo, fading in a week or so. 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.

  • bryndos@fedia.io
    1·
    3 days ago

    Thank god! Here was i accepting all the negativity about ai being a waste of resources.

  • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    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 its 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?