WEBVTT - TechStuff Gets Tattooed and Pierced 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.240 Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from half 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:15.040 stuff dot com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to tech Stuff, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:16.680 and we have a question for you. Are you ready 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.799 to rock? I'm Jonathan Strickland, I'm Lauren vocal Bomb. That 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.080 refers to something that happened off Mike during our warm ups. Anyway, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.440 So we wanted to talk today about the topic of 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.040 body modification and text role in that some of the 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.000 body modification topics will be talking about do not directly 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.720 tie into a lot of tech, but it's still interesting 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.599 because it leads into the discussion of the next generation 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.320 of high tech body modification. Sure, and also you know 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.479 some of the technology that people are using on current 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.480 body modifications, even just regular old tattoos. It's pretty interesting. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.920 Oh yeah, yeah, speaking of regular old tattoos. In the 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.279 interest of full disclosure, I've got two of them, so 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.400 I can actually talk about the physical experience of receiving 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.120 a tattoo as well as the actual science and technology 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.400 that goes into producing a tattoo. I have zero tattoos 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.839 while we're while we're talking about it, but my ears 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.480 are pierced. Does that Does that help that that's body modification? 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.560 I'm actually also interest of all disclosure, debating getting into 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.720 your pierced just just one, just one, Okay, just one. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.440 I don't know that's going to happen too, because I 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.039 keep thinking I might be too old for that. So 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.360 let's talk about tattoos. That's a good starting point, right, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.120 I mean, your piercing is probably the lowest on the 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.280 scale because it's the most socially accepted form of body 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.720 modification in our culture. You know, it's one in in 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.399 the United States that you're piercing. Is that's that's pretty 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.479 pretty pretty yeah, very common. So it's no one would 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.880 blink an eye really, depending upon the type of piercing. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.680 I mean, there are more extreme piercings that that some 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.280 people would look at and go, wow, that's pretty extreme, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.040 but it's still kind of on the the and yeah, 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.000 at least as far as our society is concerned. Right, 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.640 But tattoos. Tattoos are one of those things that we 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.760 have a lot of information about about how they happen. Yes, um, 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.800 and they are getting more common. According to a Harris 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.920 Pole of American adults have one UM, including thirty eight 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.679 percent of people between the ages of thirty and thirty nine. Yeah, 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.079 I fall into that category. Yeah, you know, and I'm 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.040 actually I'm always thinking about what my next one's going 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.280 to be. By the way, there's a common saying that 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.040 tattoos are addictive. That is kind of well, it's not 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.920 physiologically true, but psychologically it is kind of true, because 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.040 after you take the plunge the first time, you think, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.160 I kind of want more. So clearly, when we're talking 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.360 about tattoos in this podcast, we're really going to be 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.400 focusing on the way that modern tattoos happened. But it, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.440 you know, it beholds us to talk about tattooing has 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.880 a pretty long history. Yeah. Recent documentation from the Siberian 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:50.079 Times reported that some of the permafrost preserved uh, like 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.880 like ice princesses and stuff like that have shown, um 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.160 from you know, fifth century BC have have shown tattoos 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.399 much like modern ones. That particular article strangely enough didn't 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.320 link out to any scholarly institutions or or reporting, so 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.840 salt yeah, but still well yeah, and then there have 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.480 been reports of you know, tattoos being found on ancient 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:17.399 Egyptian mummies from about two thousand BC. Uh. And then 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.840 of course the word tattoo we get from a Tahitian 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.440 word which essentially means to mark, which makes sense, and 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.359 that that word started to appear in English writing right 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.720 around the time that old James Cook was exploring the 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:37.720 South Pacific, so about seventeen sixty nine. Now, tattoos are 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.200 all done in essentially the same way, which involves piercing 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.320 the skin and inserting the mak. But the tattoo machine 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.920 is a little more recent. That comes to us from 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.400 the late eighteen hundreds. It's a late nineteenth century and 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.880 that was a improvement by one Samuel O'Reilly on a 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.320 machine patented by Thomas Edison. Yes, Thomas Essen's machine was 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.200 not meant to tattoo. It was meant to engrave metal, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.320 and it was meant to create stencils, and it was 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.880 called an electric pen, also known as the autographic printer, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.120 and that was something that was invented right around eight 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.560 or so. But what O'Reilly said was, you know, I'm 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.120 a tattoo artist. He actually had been a tattoo artist 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.000 in New York. He was an Irish immigrant, came to 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.279 New York sometime in the eighteen seventies, set up shop, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.320 saw the electric pin by Thomas Edison and It's interesting 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.920 because that device that Thomas Esson made never really became 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.600 popular for what it was designed to do. There were 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.720 other technologies that came along shortly thereafter that made it 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.320 more or less obsolete. Right. And also you know, for 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.920 for for hand engraving. Yeah, it's a lot um more 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.760 efficient to in machine engrave than it is to handingrain. Right. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.839 So O'Reilly takes a look at this and says, wait 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.160 a minute, though, this thing that maybe isn't so great 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.840 for what it was meant to do might do something 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.840 else if I just make a few modifications. Yeah, if 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.640 I just changed the tube system to to accommodate inc 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:04.040 and um uh, modified the oscillating unit to drive a 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.760 needle rather than a Yeah, I suppose it was a 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.599 needle to begin with, right, right, but there's a different 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.320 style needle like the needle that was in the electric pin. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.880 You would not want to touch your skin because it 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.040 was enormous. It was huge and a little bit scary. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.719 It was, yes, certainly, and it's funny if you want 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.920 to actually take a look at the patent. The patent 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:27.320 was issued on December eight. Because it's on the patent application, 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.480 you can actually look up patents for free online. Google 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.520 has a very good patent searching. This one comes right 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.680 up if you do a patent searching Google. Uh, it's 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:40.120 patent number four six for eight oh one and the 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.680 name of it is tattooing machine. Both yes, both both 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.120 that and Edison's machine. UM. The patents for them still exists. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.279 In The illustrations are very fancy and pretty yes, and 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.840 that's I've seen some really slap dash patent tellstrations to 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.320 my day, but these are top notch. There's some there's 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.400 some ones for some particularly high tech gadgets that when 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.040 you look at the you think it was someone drunk 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.240 when they drew this, and it just shows that, you know, 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.880 engineers and artists don't always combine into one person right 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.680 at anything rate. So you look at this pattern, it's 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.279 very interesting it It does have that ink reservoir and 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.880 it's got the ability to channel inc down to this needle. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.760 The needle, by the way, is solid. It's not like 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.679 a hollow needle or anything, right. I think the idea 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.679 is that, um, the needle is contained within a small 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.520 chamber that holds the ink, and then when the needle 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.360 pushes down out through that chamber, it takes takes the 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.000 drop off then right, and it pierces the skin and 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:37.599 deposits the ink underneath, specifically in the dermist, because you're 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.800 going underneath the epidermis, which which sheds and cycles so 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.760 frequently that if you put it in the epidermis, it 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.880 would stick around for not very long at all, certainly 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.039 not a lifetime. Like if you have you have ever 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.640 had either, you know, well, temporary tattoo will just wash 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.320 off eventually. But if you were to get like a 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.839 henna tattoo, something that stains the skin, then you know 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.200 that eventually that skin, no matter how careful you are, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.920 that design is gonna go away because you will shed 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.160 that skin. You know, that skin will end up flaking 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.479 off of you. It becomes dust. Actually, that's what a 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.160 lot of the dust in our world is. It's that 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.440 skin scale. Yeah, I mean a lot of the dust 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:12.960 that you encounter on a day to day basis. That's 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.800 pretty much from your body, happy thought anyway. Uh So, Yeah, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:21.160 the tattoo is permanent because it is actually staining the dermists, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.080 as you said, not the epidermist. So we were actually 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.440 looking at a tattoo through the epidermists think of the 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.280 epidermist is kind of like a window, and the dermist 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:34.400 is where you're actually seeing the design imprinted. And your 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.840 typical tattoo needle. According to our article on how stuff 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.320 works dot com, there's you know how tattoos work? We 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.040 actually have this article. Uh, the needle can move between 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.680 fifty and three thousand times per minute. Now that's actually 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.880 the same frequency as the electric pen that Thomas Edison created. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.400 So I suspect that most needles probably move significantly faster 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.560 than fifty times per minute because that would be um, well, 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.800 you'd have essentially one us once a second. So think 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.680 about that one one to one. You'd be like, oh, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:11.120 oh stop it. I I suppose, depending upon the type 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.480 of work being done. Yes, I am not a tattooed professional. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.080 That would be a really interesting question to ask a 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.240 tattooed professional. Outlining versus shading is very different. I can 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:24.040 save you from experience both on the performance end. Not 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.320 I can't say that from experience, but from the recipient, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.920 and I as sure as heck can tell you there's 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.320 a world of difference in the pain levels that you 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:36.600 experience from outlining versus shading. Um. Now, it's also interesting. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.559 You know your your your experience of pain will depend 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.320 upon several things, like your own threshold of pain. Obviously 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.040 mind's staying pretty high. But it also depends on where 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.720 you get the tattoo. Now, there's certain surfaces where you 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.320 know it's nice and fleshy and you're not gonna you 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.760 might feel like kind of a buzzing sensation and maybe 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.040 some tingling, but it's not terribly painful. And then there 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.280 are other areas where it feels like someone's really pinching 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.040 you pretty hard, or maybe you're getting like a bit 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.080 of a beasting. I've heard that anything close to it 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.520 close to the bond. I've got one on my left 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.680 shoulder blade, and anytime it got to the point where 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:13.360 it was close to the actual bone was significantly more 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.360 painful than the rest of the tattoo. And I've also 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.240 got one on my left arm, and anything on the 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.640 inside of the arm was more painful than the outside. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.200 But yeah, so you've got with your basic tattoo gun, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.760 your tattoo machine. You've got the the unit that the 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.800 tattoo artist holds in his or her hand, which has 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.240 a tube that houses the needle. It's got the ink 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.960 uh the ink chamber or a little ink thing will 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.320 will actually screw into it. And then there's usually a 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.559 foot pedal control that controls the depth of the needle 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.440 so that the tattoo artists can be very precise when 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.040 actually putting the tattoo onto your skin. It'll be more 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.760 or less a millimeter, depending on you know who you 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.280 are and where it is. Yeah, but about a millimeters 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:02.080 is that's that's a pretty good estimation. And uh it's 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:07.720 the machine itself is is brilliantly simple. It's based on 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.040 um or. It's kind of similar to to what a 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:15.760 sewing machine is. If that metaphor doesn't completely I'm actually 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.439 perfectly fine with that, but I guess it's because I've 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.280 had a couple of tattoos and needles don't typically bother me. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.240 But I do understand there are people who have real 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.520 psychological issues with anything that has to do with needles. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.080 With needles to understand that. But but so so the gun. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.120 The gun contains a circuit that runs through an electromagnet, 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.240 and that circuit is opened and closed via the vibrations 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.160 of a spring loaded a read or um uh stick 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:45.080 panel UM and and those vibrations are controlled by a 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.160 weight like a pendulum that's placed along that that flaunged 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:54.160 inter um and now the vibrations are caused by cycling 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.520 power through the electromagnet, so they have the fluctuating electric 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.800 magnetic field and that's going to start causing some vibration. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:06.280 And the read is connected at the top um uh 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.199 to to the to the base of the needle, and 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.559 therefore the vibrations of it pushed the needle up and down, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.680 and it makes it very very simple to use. Very 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.560 I mean, the the cycle is is self perpetuating until 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.480 you cut off the electricity supply entirely and we have 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:27.360 a simple reciprocating motion that yeah, it's it is so 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.040 really the the complexity here comes in the actual execution 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.600 of making a tattoo, and that's where the artistry and 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.640 skill really comes in. Because operating the machinery is pretty simple. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.200 It's the handling it properly and making sure you're doing 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.560 not only a wonderful artistic job, but that you're doing 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.800 it safely right, And the safety issue is one of 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.120 those One of the things that I do know very 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.400 very well about tattoo parlors is that if it does 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.439 not smell like a hospital, like a really good clean hospital. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.680 Gone get out. Yeah, because yeah. So so for any 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.280 of you is out there who are considering tattoos, uh, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.040 you know, make sure you do your research check and 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.880 it makes certain that all the different whatever tattoo parlor 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.560 you're looking at, is on the up and up, that 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:15.959 they follow very strict uh sterilization processes, that they are 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.720 very careful to have one use items and then they 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.079 discard them and they don't ever use them again. Some 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:27.120 some parts of the tattoo machine are reusable, and that's 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.600 perfectly fine, and we'll talk about those, but even those 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.679 make sure they have like an autoclave, autoclave they are 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.480 they are sterilizing their equipment because you want to heat 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.040 things to either two or two hundred and seventy degrees 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.760 depending on the pressure and the time length that you're using. Yeah, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.280 and then we'll talk a little bit about the autoclave 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.440 specifically in just a second to kind of explain what 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.480 that is for those of you who don't know. But 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.800 the whole purpose here is to kill off any kind 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:55.200 of bacteria or other organism that could cause infection or disease. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.160 And because like we said, you're what a tattoo is 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.000 is a you know, a whole bunch of little puncture 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.480 is in your skin. Punctures can get infected. It's it's 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.520 an open wound. Yeah. Yeah, any kind of heals up right, 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.160 But yeah, any kind of wound has the potential to 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.680 get infected. So it's very important that you find a 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:16.040 place that is reputable and clean. So the basic parts 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.760 of this tattoo that you've got, the sterilized needle and 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.400 those are one use. That's that should just every time 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.400 you go to a tattoo parlor, if you're getting a tattoo, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.719 the needles they have should be one use needles and 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.640 sterilized packets that they should open right in front in 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.400 front of you, right before they start their work. Right, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.040 those packets should remain sealed until they're ready to do work. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.960 So they open it up and they put in the 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.920 needle into the machine which has already been cleaned in 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.480 the autoclave. And I'll get to that in a second. Ah. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.280 Other things that need to be single use include ink, ink, cups, gloves. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.320 All of this kind of stuff needs to be one 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.319 use in sterile packaging to minimize the risk of any 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.559 kind of contamination. So make sure. And it's perfectly fine 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:04.400 to ask questions any reputable tattoo artists because it shows 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.440 that you have done your research and that you're serious 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.600 about it. And again, if they're reputable, they'll have no 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.680 problem answering your questions, being able to show you what 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.720 what it is they do to stay. If they give 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.280 you a grief about it, get out of here. Don't 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.120 don't go there, go somewhere else. Um. So uh. The 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.960 autoclave is actually think of it as like a machine 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.080 that generates lots of heat, pressure, and steam. Those are 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.160 essentially the three components there, and it's often used in 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.880 Autoclaves are used in medical facilities to clean medical uh equipment. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.840 So you the way it works is you would put 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.400 stuff in a little pouch, each one with each piece 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.200 of the equipment would get its own little pouch. Uh. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.560 This equipment would be things like the needle bar and 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.760 the tube of the machine. So these would be the 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.640 bits that would be used again and again they go 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.440 into their little pouches. Each pouch has a little indicator 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.840 strip on the outside for when everything is has been 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:03.400 heated to the correct temperature. Yeah, exactly, It says essentially 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.400 that that sticker changes color and it tells you what's 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.400 not sticker, But the indicator changes color and it tells 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.760 you everything in here is dead you and so. Uh. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.200 But yeah, like you said, it can heat depending upon 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.840 the settings. The general rule of thumb is two or 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.440 fifty degrees fahrenheight or a hundred twenty one degrees celsius 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.760 for ten pounds of pressure for thirty minutes, or to 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.840 seventy degrees fahrenheit or one thirty two celsius at fifteen 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.040 pounds of pressure for fifteen minutes. Uh. That is the 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.480 standard operating procedure. The tattoo parlors should be following one 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.680 of those two with its autoclave. And uh, there you go. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:45.600 That is your standard approach to sterilize the reusable equipment. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.720 So remember ask those questions, make sure you know, you 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.320 do your research and uh and if everything's on the 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.680 up and up, then enjoy your painful experience. It's really 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.120 not that bad, depending upon where you get it, and 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.720 how big the tattoo is, and and and yoursonal tolerance 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.360 and the skill of the of the artists. I had 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.440 an incredible tattoo artist who did both the same guy 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.520 did both my tattoos, and uh, and he was just 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:14.400 he was not only really skilled at creating beautiful designs, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.400 he also really minimized all the discomfort. I mean there 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.280 was some, especially around the shoulder blade area, but it 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.960 was it was nothing too intense. Like, it was nothing 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:29.120 more intense than you know, a minor beasting. So assuming 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.360 you're not allergic to bees and you've experienced a beasting 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.360 and it wasn't a big deal, that's pretty much the 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.840 worst it got for me personally. Right, I happened to 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:43.200 be allergic to be you compared to a beasting, and 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.840 you'd say I would die, That's not what I mean. Um. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.160 Other fun questions to ask your tattoo artists are what 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.640 kind of inks they use? Um, Just as an interesting note, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.680 sometimes inks contain metallic pigments, and um, if you ever 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.360 have to go in for an m r I after 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.040 getting a tattoo with the metallic pigment, it's an not 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.640 gonna fly out of your body magneto style or anything 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.040 like that. Yeah, and uh, it's also good just to 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.680 make sure that you know if you have any known allergies, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.600 that's obviously something else you need to discuss. Because there's 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:14.600 a possibility that either the ink itself could contain something 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.880 that you are allergic to, which could be a problem, 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.959 or that some of the other materials, like they're supposed 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.560 to the whole process before they tattoo you, they have 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:28.119 to uh areas infected, right, So any anything like that, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.399 you just want to make sure that you're not going 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.280 to come into contact something with something that's going to 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.640 give you a bad reaction. And I had one other 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.800 kind of cool thing. Well, first of all, if you're 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.760 feeling in a goofy mood, we do have a we 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.119 do have a fake article and How Stuff Works about tattoos, uh, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.600 one of our few, so we haven't we haven't done 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.200 it every year, but occasionally How Stuff Works has made 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.560 an April Fool's article on how stuff works. And we 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.479 have one about how animated tattoos work, which is all 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.280 about electronic tattoos that are it's like electronic devices, right right. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.119 The story goes is that and there's an actual patent 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.159 for a subdermal l c D screen out there that 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.240 exists in the real world. Um that has never nothing 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.760 ever really came of it, I think, but but but 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.119 but yeah, the article talks about a little subdermal l 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.719 c D that's connected to a little magnetic battery and 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.200 a small controller, and so that you would be able 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.480 to have a tattoo that would actually be like showing 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.639 video and stuff, or have an animation on it that 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.200 we could run in a loop. Now, there are obviously 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.720 some some barriers to that, the big one being that 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.919 the body tends to not like stuff introduced to it, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.439 And we're going to talk more about that when we 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.399 get into the second half, and we start talking about 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.520 some interesting implants that there are dangers of a body 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.960 rejecting certain materials, and you can't really predict which ones 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.000 it's going to reject, which ones it's not. There's some 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:51.159 that have a lower percentage of rejection, and even some 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.040 people's immune systems work differently, right, so it's kind of 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.400 a tossing and they can change depending upon your activity 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:57.800 level too. I mean, if you get a if you 0:18:57.840 --> 0:18:59.840 get an implant in an area that gets a lot 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:04.440 of like a lot of agitation, then that can increase 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.639 the odds of a rejection that kind of thing. But 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:08.880 we'll get into that in the second half. However, there 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:14.240 is a different kind of animated tattoo. It's not really 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.080 the tattoo itself is not animated, so it's a misnomer. Really, 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.679 But there was a guy who goes by the handle, 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.320 the tattoo handle of Carl K A R L. Each 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.960 of those letters is capitalized with a period after it. Sure, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.800 but Carl in Paris, uh American as far as I 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.760 can tell, or maybe maybe Canadian North American. At any rate, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.560 he's a tattoo artist working in Paris, created what he 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.680 calls the first animated tattoo. And I even have a 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:49.120 date for you June. The first animated tattoo not really 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.960 an animated tattoo. It's a tattoo that has what what 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.119 was it like a flipbook? Yeah, you actually got forty 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.560 guys and tattooed to stick figure on each of them 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.480 doing something slightly different than how to run in a 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.080 circle and then pertin. No, it's not that would also 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.240 be awesome. I don't know where you could be able 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.760 to convince forty guys to do that. I am sure 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.119 that you could, though I've seen a lot of crazy 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.960 tattoos out there. Know. What it was was a QR code. 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.840 So he had a guy have a tattoo with a 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.520 QR code incorporated in it. Now QR codes for those 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.679 of you who don't remember, haven't seen one in a while. Um, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:24.600 they were big for a little bit, but then they 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:26.720 kind of like they kind of fell out of favor 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.680 that it was a marketing gimmick. I mean, I I 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.840 feel like it was overpromoted as the problem. It was 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.600 a fine technology, but but the way that that WiFi 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.800 wound up happening, I I don't think that it was 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.600 as necessary as people thought that it was going. And 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.119 there's a lot a lot more work and image recognition 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.359 like things that like there's a there's a lot more 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.600 work now where software can recognize things without there having 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.920 to be some sort of established pattern. Rare, but essentially 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.199 it's it is kind of like the next generation of 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.320 the bar code. It was those those blocky pictures you've 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.920 ever if you've ever seen them, they're they're a square 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.280 that have a little black except it's all block it's 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.520 all hard edges but pixelated R shack test. Yeah, there 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.280 you go, exactly. And so this was incorporated in the 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:11.879 tattoo and in fact, they didn't know if it was 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.080