WEBVTT - The Future of Tattoos 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.000 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:13.480 Works dot Com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:15.640 My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. In 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.240 our last episode, the Science of Tattooing, The Sammy's the Tattoos, 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.320 we discussed the history of the culture of tattoos a 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:24.880 little bit kind of an overview, and then we broke 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:30.280 down the science of getting that that symbol, that name, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.839 that deity, that dolphin put into your flesh in a 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:40.120 this semi permanent way. Indeed, and we even talked about 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.599 some of the more unusual tattooing practices, like having your 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:48.720 medical condition tattooed on you. Um. We didn't talk about 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.000 scleral tattooing. We did not, yeah, which is tattooing the 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.680 whites of your eyes. Yeah, which is doable, not necessarily advised, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.960 but it is possible, just to show you just how 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:07.200 how extreme your tattooing can go. Uh And and indeed, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.240 uh we also didn't get into some of the ways 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:14.280 that individuals augment their tattoos, uh, such as by adding 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:19.840 additional implants. We were looking at an example, uh of 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.959 an individual who gave breast implants to his tattoo back 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.920 in two thousand seven. Um, yeah, on his on his 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.720 leg to be specific, mermaid. Yeah, yeah, or it was 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.000 I can't tell when the picture was a mermaid or 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.920 possibly just a cowgirl. Can I see again? Oh, you're right, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.679 it as a cowgirl. I don't know why I thought 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.640 that was a mermaid with like a cowboy hat. Well, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.319 you know, there are a lot of mermaid tattoos, and 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.680 essentially it's a mermaid tattoo. It's very much in that 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:50.240 same genre. But yeah, he apparently decided it needs implants 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.920 and uh apparently there's not a lot of specifics on 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:57.800 what he used, but uh, Canadian body art enthusiast Lane 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.960 Jensen had the implants done too in hants the chest 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:07.440 of this particular emblem. So our topographical tattoo, if you will. Yeah. Now, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.600 we bring all of this up because as long as 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.160 there have been humans with access to a needle in 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.239 some dye, there have been tattoos. So the question now 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.720 becomes what are some of the more cutting edge technologies 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.799 available and what will the future hold, because in general, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.560 we're gonna keep getting them for the same reasons we 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.760 thought we've always gotten tattoos. We want to express ourselves 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.760 in darker areas. We want to dehumanize people. Hopefully we 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.480 won't go as much to that route in the future, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.519 but who knows. Uh. We want to treat the illness 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:43.080 illnesses so somehow improve the functioning of our bodies. And 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.760 uh we see all of these energies in our in 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:50.240 our future and emerging. Uh tattooing technology. Now, the maker 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.679 movement has a foothold in tattoo technology. Parish design studio 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.440 Appropriate Audiences combined a three D printer with a tattoo 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.320 with needle to form an automated tattoo printer that can 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.440 create tattoos. They adapted software produced by something or by 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.000 a company called Autodesk to turn tattoo designs into digital 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.799 files that can be downloaded to the machine. And then 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.400 the user inserts his or her limb into the printer 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:22.200 and the needle draws the design into their skin. Yeah, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.520 and uh, apparently the needle replaces the part of the 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:29.560 printer that would usually extrude melted plastic to make objects interesting. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.600 I mean, it's very much in keeping with the origins 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.160 of the tattoo gun itself, which was based on a 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.880 believe Edison's model for the electric pencil type device. Yeah, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.280 the electric pen um And this is I mean, this 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.440 is fairly nuanced for just being a hacked three D printer, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.680 because what they did is they made some bespoke three 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.080 D printed parts to work with it, and then they 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.360 have a sensor that reads the surface of the skin 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.200 of the user, meaning that the needle can respond to 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.040 changes in skin texture and the dimensions of the limb. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.320 So it makes me think, you know, who knows, this 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.760 could be more of a d I O Y endeavor 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.480 in the future with three D printers. I don't know 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:06.880 if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Oh, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.400 I'm just looking beyond do it yourself. And as I 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.920 say this, I certainly hope that the human tattoo artist 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.240 never goes away, because I feel like it's a vital part. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.240 You know, it's the ritual, that's the thing, and you need. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.680 You don't want a machine, you want a high priest. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.400 It's taking care of your your semi religious ritual of 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.520 pain and so that human touch. But maybe we little 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.839 reach the top of the day when instead of a 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.120 cigarette machine in the back of your local bar, there's 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.960 a tattoo machine. And that would be the perfect place 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.520 for it. You just go back there and you suddenly 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.200 have an idea. Yes, I want the name of this 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.719 individual I just met put into my skin. Yes I 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.800 want that football team on my shin, and you just 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.200 stick your arm or leg or what have you into 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.680 the machine. It clamps down and then just prints that 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.080 sucker right into your skin. Okay. The problem with that 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.040 is that you would have a bunch of sort of 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.280 well would you call like clip art designs available, So 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.440 that will any tattoo place, So you're gonna have a 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.240 lot of clip art available, although some tattoo artists will 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:13.200 create their own designs, right, so it's not necessarily from 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.280 the clip art available. So what I'm saying is that 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.000 I think that the artistry there could be lost in 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.400 a three D machine. Oh oh indeed, I mean unless 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.480 you you're really looking far into the future and you're 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:29.000 looking at at the possibilities of artificial intelligence being a 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.160 part of that machine. Oh yeah, And if you want 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.440 to look more into that, you should check out our 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:37.880 episode on I think we titled it can Machines Be Creative? Yes, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.680 I will make sure to include a link to that 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.720 podcast episode on the landing page for this episode at 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.560 stuff to Blow your mind dot com. Now, as we 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.960 discussed this, we're gonna inevitably hit on ideas that really 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.479 resonate with sci fi fans out there. And I was 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.000 trying to think of some really great examples of science 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.320 fiction tattoos, and two came to mind. First, Uh, dr 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.920 Amy Wong from Futurama, because she has several tattoos um 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.360 that come up throughout the course of the show. But 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.719 a particularly note, there's there's one episode where she has this, uh, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.120 really obscene tattoo, but we can't see it because our 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.520 TVs in the past aka the current the modern age. Uh, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.600 we we don't have high enough deaf to see what's 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.839 going on in this obscene tattoo. And uh and then 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.040 there there seemed to be at least four talking tattoos 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.480 that pop up throughout the course of the show, including 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.719 a devil that on her shoulder that that says also 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.800 sorts of obnoxious things. But it's essentially an animated tattoo, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.000 which actually kind of exists kind of in a kind 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.159 of very sketchy sense. But but yeah, it's certainly something 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.000 that is already on the minds of tattoo enthusiasts and 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.440 uh and and and anyone that's looking into the future 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.760 is like, what what else can we do with the 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.760 tattooing medium? What can we do with our current and 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.920 emerging technology to change the shape of what it does? 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.800 Is um. Another example that comes to mind in Ian M. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.799 Bank's Surface Detail, which is one of his culture novels, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:11.040 which I've talked about those before, wonderful books. UM. In 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.600 that particular book, there's a character who's covered with congenitally 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.000 administered tattoos uh and it had there's a kind of 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.200 a complex plot with her where she's essentially born into 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.480 a kind of an indentured service kind of environment, and 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.440 so she's kind of like tattooed at a genetic level 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.560 to show that she property. But yeah, in the book, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:38.720 she eventually acquires this uh, this kind of nanotechnology uh 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.200 thin layer that covers her body and it serves as 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.000 like a space suit, but it also allows sort of 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:49.080 like customized animated tattoos to pop up. Now it's you know, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.360 it's not under the skin, so it's not technically a tattoo, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.360 but it's very much in the in the spirit of 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.760 augmenting your body with with high technology, which which kind 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.640 of brings us back to now out and what we 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.320 can do in terms of animated tattoos. In two thousand eleven, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.000 a Paris based tattoo artist who goes by the name 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.720 of Carl K A R L like all initials, uh 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.640 ink at QR code on a willing participant named Marco. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.360 I think you just we should say willing um. And 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.920 what happens is that QR code When you put an 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.720 iPhone over it, the phone plays an animated tattoo design 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.920 of a top head hatted kind of character. Yeah, with 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.680 a thin, long mustache, almost like the Monopoly dude. Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.640 And that's kind of a rudimentary idea of what an 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.319 animated tattoo can be, because we think animated tattoo, that's 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.400 like independently animated. But no, it has to interact with technology. Yeah, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.280 and that's that's really the I think the cool part 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.800 about this particular tattoo is that it is a tattoo 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.960 that interacts with technology. And we'll discuss some more examples 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.200 of that as we move forward. Now, I would do 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.160 want to point out that how stuff works. Do us 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.839 have an article how animated tattoos? Work. There'll there will 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.480 be a link to that on the landing page for 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.439 this episode. But that one deals with a particular individual, uh, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.400 a pair of individuals, J. Shawn Singer and carl A. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.199 Pinter who back in two thousand six, we're working with 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.600 the idea of a programmable subcutaneous visible implant, which is 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:27.080 essentially an l c D under the skin like sin. Yeah, so, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.880 and there's like a control model power supply. The article 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.480 goes into more depth about how this supposedly worked. Uh, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.040 but it's not something you can get at your local 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.280 tattoo parliament, and it's very much uh some do it 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:44.360 yourself cybernetic tinkering in the flesh. Um, it's interesting. It's 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.720 not completely out of keeping with the idea of the tattoo, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.520 but it's uh, it's certainly a very crude example of 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:57.040 where we may be going in the future and thinks novel, right, Yeah, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.360 Like it's basically the do it yourself two thousand six 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.959 version of that under the skin. Now. Um, the next 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.559 example we're gonna bring up is based in biometric recognition. Okay, 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.319 and we know what that is, right, That's been around 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.120 for a while, this idea that you can plug information 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.800 in you can identify people based on physical characteristics like fingerprints, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.560 the iris of an eye, or a face. Facebook facial 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.920 recognition uses something similar and attempt to try to semi 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.440 automate their photo tagging system. But we've got an upgrade 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.559 to that, and it comes by way of Aneil Jane 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.439 at Michigan State University, professor of computers. Yeah, back in 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.240 two thousand he created an automatic image retrieval system whereby 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.559 law enforcement agencies would be able to unmatch scars, marks, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.280 and of course tattoos to identify suspects and victims. H 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.000 And as if you've ever seen a cop show, you 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.160 know that like tattoos always come up. You know, are 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.839 there any tattoos or just singuishing marks, right, that's always 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.280 a key part of it and find somebody. So it 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.800 makes sense that you'd want to uh incorporate that into 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.920 your biometric information. And so this is the idea behind 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.800 tattoo i D. And this identification tool would be then 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:10.240 be made available to law enforcement, government, military agencies. And 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.840 in fact, in two thousand ten, Michigan State University licensed 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.439 tattoo i D technology to morphoe track the world's quote 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.760 unquote top provider of biometric and identity management systems. So 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.280 we see this not just as a sort of cutting 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.560 edge technology, but a technology that's being adopted on a 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.640 wide scale. Yeah, I mean it makes perfect sense. Right now, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.280 you have an individual with the distinguishing marked, distinguishing tattoo, 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.760 you want that to be a part of your record keeping. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.600 So yeah, you want to bump that up against the database, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.839 right and see what comes out. And it turns out 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.600 that it determines the suspect's identity with a really high 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.840 accuracy rate. And while you know this identifying mark, whether 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.560 it be a scar or tattoo, can't uniquely identify a person, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.600 that can help authorities narrow down the list of potential identities, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.080 and it can indicate membership in a gang, social and 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.160 religious group, or a military unit. Of course, this wouldn't 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.760 stop savvy criminals with means, right because even in a 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.719 d I Y since we've seen criminals obscure their fingerprints 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.080 by slicing them off, so obviously tattoo removal or you know, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:24.920 even covering up would change those marks are identifying marks. Yeah, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.800 you just change the tattoo every time you commit a crime, 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.800 like the first time it's a rabbit, the second time 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.160 it's a rabbit on a donkey. Then it's jousting with 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.080 a with a windmill or something, you know, and just 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.520 add some new element to it, and just and just 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.840 keep the the tattoo I D system ever, you know, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.800 on its on its feet, trying to catch up with you. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.080 I hope interpoll isn't listening, right, because that's sort of 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.680 your m O. Right, you just revealed it to the world. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.800 I know now they know, now they know. All right, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.840 we're gonna take a quick break, and when we come back, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.280 we will discuss more about the future in near future 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:03.920 of crazy high tech tattooks. We're back in this uh 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.679 this next entry. I guess we could say that the 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.680 nineties rave scene helped to spawn it. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.199 because you're if you're going to a rave of it's, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.439 particularly in the nineties, you know, what are you gonna encounter. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.800 You're gonna go into a room with some some hopefully 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:26.080 really awesome electronic music going on, really fierce. Yeah, it's 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.120 it's likely going to be dark, except with some crazy 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.000 lighting something glow sticks, glow sticks, perhaps some ultra violet 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.800 lighting going on as well, and that ultraviolet light will 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:41.160 be illuminating certain colors, certain tones, and really changing the 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.080 the visual world that you're that you're taking part in. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:50.520 And if you have ultra violet die pumped into you 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.400 into a tattoo, it will reveal itself under this black light. Yeah, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.160 you essentially have a black light tattoo that that under 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.359 normal normals from stances doesn't even show up, is essentially invisible. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.160 But then when you enter the rave environment, you were 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.160 a different person, not only because you took that ecstasy, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.080 but also because you have this tattoo. Indeed, now, um, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.280 it's not clear if using ultra violet ink poses any 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.240 health risks. Um, so we should you know, throw that 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.880 out there. Um. But it does kind of make some 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:26.440 very cool tattoos, even cool. I saw one tattoo of 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.720 Yoda poised for battle in regular light, but then you 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.000 put the black light over him, and his eyes glow 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.720 and you know he's his lightsaber is blue and menacing looking. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.600 I like I like it. I mean I like the 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.720 idea of it because it's it's the idea that you 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.760 could have a tattoo that that changes it's uh, it's 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.680 essential form, depending them on your environment. And if you 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.160 enter into an environment with black lights, such as a 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.400 rave or a um, yeah, I guess a rave such 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.760 as well, only a rave mainly mainly raves or puppet 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.680 shows that use black live or ironically like some of 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.360 these kids joints, you know, these jumpy houses. Goodness. Yeah, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.080 you show up there and you just think, you know, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.400 you think you're just another mom and other dad taking 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.000 your kid there to the bounce place, and then lo 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.480 and behold the black lights reveal your your alternate persona. Yeah, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:22.040 there you go. Oops. Now we talked about radiation tattoos 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:26.160 in the last podcast. This is the practice of inking 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.040 for freckled sized dots in a configuration usually a square 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.360 on a patch of skin, usually impressed cancer radiology, and 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.720 that helps the radiologists to better line up the area 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.320 to be treated. And we bring this up again because, um, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.840 having those tattoos, as discreet as they are for some people, 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.800 can be troubling because it's a reminder of the cancer 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.680 or this feeling that you know, the cancer come back 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.920 and this you know, you know, a lot of magical 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.720 thinking happens. Um as well, it should with something that 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.760 is this weighty of a subject. Yeah, indeed, so I mean, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.520 you can just basically understand why someone in this situation 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.160 might choose to have less permanent marks on their body 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.600 if it were at all possible, and this style of 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.760 tattooing makes that possible. You could get essentially an invisible 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.920 tattoo that only shows up under black light. That when 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.080 you're receiving the treatment, they use a black light to 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.920 identify where the marks are so that they can they 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.200 can aim everything correctly. But then the rest of the 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.760 time it's not an issue. Yeah. Researchers based at the 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.560 Royal Marston Hospital in London asked forty two brust cancer 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.560 patients undergoing radiotherapy to rate how they felt about their 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.360 body before the treatment, and then one month later and 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.760 half the women were offered fluorescent tattoos, again only visible 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.520 under the UV light, while the other half had conventional 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.760 dark ink tattoos. And the researchers found that fifty of 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.200 the women who had those fluorescent tattoos felt better about 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.240 their bodies one month after treatment, compared to only four 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:03.920 percent among those who have the traditional black dye tattoos. Interesting, alright, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.200 we're gonna take a quick break and when we get back, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:15.600 more future and more tattoos. So you probably want where 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.000 do we go from here? We've already talked about a 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.000 tattoo that it essentially is invisible, that only comes to 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.520 life during a mid nineties rave. So so so what's 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.040 next on the list? Well, how about Pharaoh magnetic ink 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.919 in your tattoo? Yeah, because think about regular inc just 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:37.240 sits so quietly deposited into those specialized cells called macro 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.480 fishes and fibroblasts sitting in your dermis, just trapped there. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:46.280 But if you're ink was enriched with metallic compounds, your 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:52.280 tattoo might tingle if say, your phone rings. Shall we explain? Yeah? Yes, 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.160 I mean, well, you don't have to explain why someone 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.920 would want this. Obviously, we all wish that our cell 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.240 phones would actually have an even more bodily effect on us, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:05.600 that we would actually feel it in our bodies. Uh. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.040 I say this because I do have a hard time 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.159 imagining why you would want that. Like the just yesterday 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.800 I was working at a coffee shop and everybody who 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.400 was a head their laptop on a single bar, and 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.879 like multiple people had their cell phones out on the table. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.879 And so if if one person's cell phone would vibrate 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.920 we'd all feel it, and we'd all have that momentary 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.240 bodily reaction to a phone going off, and then you're wondering, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:29.840 who's trying to get in touch with me? Is it 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.480 good news? Is it bad news? And you just go 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.119 through all of that. So, yes, if you want that 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.639 feeling to actually be a part of your anenemy on 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.399 some level, then farromagnetic inc is is what you need 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.840 to look into. Yeah. So once that ink is enriched 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.760 with metallic compounds and sort of skin, it's demagnetized. But 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:53.800 when the tattoo is healed, it's remagnetized without side magnets 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.280 right exterior ones, and it becomes responsive to magnetic pulses, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.080 which theoretically can be emitted by a cell phone. Right. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.480 And Nokia submitted a patent for this in two thousand 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.600 and twelve as part of of their haptic technology to 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.480 interact with their products. And whether they intend to actually 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.480 produce and market this technology or whether it was just 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.920 sort of a pre emptive move to prevent others from 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.120 developing the technology is not known. Um, I can't imagine 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.919 a big corporation would be of the mindset. No, No, 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:28.840 we don't want people to have this, so we getting 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.880 I imagine it was more in line with people might 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.040 want this eventually. So if they're going to do it, 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.200 we're gonna make money off of it. Well, I mean, 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.680 especially when you consider all the brain and body technological 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:43.320 interfaces that are being developed already. Yeah, I mean, you 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.119 know it as repugnant as the idea of my my 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:51.280 phone reaching into my body is. As we inevitably merge 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.200 with the machine, we we want it to be as 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.280 h as painless the process as possible. We want we 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.600 want to be able to to feel our machines on 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.480 some levels. So well, you guys know this to be true. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.280 And this is why I bet all of you at 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.840 some point have been reaching for a memory or a 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.680 fact and you're just sitting there without the benefit of Google, 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.080 and you think to yourself, if only I had that 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.159 Google implant right now, I could keyword this mother and 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.280 it would be done. I would I would retrieve the 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.520 information that I'm looking for. So um, speaking of Google, 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.199 they're Motorola Division patent at a device that looks like 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:30.040 a neck tattoo. And uh, this device is attached directly 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.159 to the skin, where it picks up vibrations from the 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.280 vocal cords, creating a microphone with virtually no interference. And 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.800 again it's not known if this is like a preemptive 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:42.760 patent they really are going to create this, or if 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.840 it's just maybe even an attempt to get some attention 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.560 by Google. So again it brings to mind the animated 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.960 tattoo that we discussed earlier. We see sort of the 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.280 early do it yourself um rumblings of what what is 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.720 present in these patents, The idea that we can take 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:03.400 technology that that is emerging and place it underneath the skin, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.439 make it, you know, part of our body and and 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.800 allow us to better interface with our technology, which when 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.920 you consider the fitbit right and what it does for us, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.560 and then sort of making that sub cutaneous thing, makes 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.240 you realize that this may very well be in the 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.240 future and you have one of these. I don't have 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.840 a fit bit, but Holly has one, Holly fry of 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.280 history stuff and she loves it because it shows her 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.000 sleeping patterns, like how much she wakes up during the 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.439 night and um, you know she's she's a runner, so 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:38.040 it calculates all of that good stuff. But she normally 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.520 she just has a clip to her right like not's 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:42.600 not attached to her skin. Well, you know, she's a 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.200 costume designer, so she may have already inserted this subcutaneo. 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:51.400 She likes to hack things. Um. But people behind fitbit 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.119 have drafted a concept called Project under Skin. And again, 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.560 this is a digital tattoo that would be implanted in 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.919 your hand and allow you to try trade data with handshake, 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:07.600 monitor your vital signs, or even unlock a door. Yes, 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.959 this is this is pretty pretty pretty amazing, especially when 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.240 you get into some of the even crazier details like 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.520 the even more high tech details for instance, which which 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.120 seems kind of remarkable that there would be more details 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.800 to this that that are stunning. But the team actually 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.920 envisions that the device will run off the body's own 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:28.920 electrochemical energy, so it's it's on all the time, Uh, 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.120 so you don't have to to worry about charging your 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.400 hand at night or anything of that nature. Like it's 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.040 essentially a cybernetic part of your body and a very 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.520 real and meaningful way, and and then allowing you to 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.520 interact with the cybernetic bodies of others. Like you you 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:46.359 shake somebody's hand, you end up exchanging the data. But 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.480 if it's just a fist pump. You might exchange different 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:50.359