CipherX Introduces Painless Permanent Tattoos Using Dissolving Microneedle Patches
CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches
I developed CipherX to help people with needle and blood phobias get permanent tattoos without pain. Our system uses a dissolving microneedle patch filled with pigment, which is applied via a handheld tool for just fifteen minutes. This method eliminates the vibration and visible blood of traditional machines, depositing ink in a fixed digital pattern that darkens over two days.
I was interested in tattoos but found conventional tattooing inaccessible because of my needle and blood phobia.
- delecti
Neat concept, but the density of needles seems quite low for tattoing, and that is likely why the linework of the tattoos in those pictures is so blurry. While getting tattooed, the needle will puncture skin and deposit ink typically 1500+ times per minute. The most specific that this article gets is saying the patches have "hundreds" of needles. At the high end (999 needles in a patch) this means that this patch has substantially lower resolution than a single minute of being tattooed.
So, it's a neat gimmick, but it'll need a lot of work to be much more than that. It'd be neat for some small pieces to fill space I guess.
And a bit of a tangent, but I also have a pretty strong needle aversion, and I have not found that getting tattooed "feels" like there are any needles involved in the process. I know logically that it is a needle, but subjective process (the pain and visuals) really bears no resemblance to a needle.
- echoangle
Kind of scary, imagine someone putting an ad in that and placing it on random people without them noticing.
Obviously doesn’t really make sense because if it’s an ad you also know who did it but somehow that’s the first thing that came to mind for me.
- cestith
This is neat for small flash pieces. I’m not sure I want to imagine the process for getting a half sleeve of one’s own design applied this way, fifteen millimeter diameter at a time.
- wartywhoa23
A perfect technology to mark cattle with QR codes on the forehead.
- roughly
Unless they’re also coming out with painless permanent tattoo removal as well, this seems like one of those things where removing the friction isn’t actually a good thing. Door knobs and warning signs on one way doors are a design feature, not a bug.