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A personal tattoo machine designed by Royal College of Art graduate Jakub Pollág and prestented at this year’s Designblok design and fashion week in Prague. According to the designer, the device:

…aims to democratise the tattoo industry. It gives a tool used only by a limited group of people into the hands of enthusiasts who are seeking for an alternative and unique way to permanently mark their meaningful memories onto their skin.

Oh dear.

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30 thoughts on “Tattoo You

  1. Tattoononartist

    Tattoos shout “different” to the stupid and “dead from here up” to the clever. It is the untattoed that I would question. No contrived show of “madness”.

    1. scottser

      in fairness, a well-designed and executed tattoo is perfectly acceptable. these just look like something a juvenile would doodle on his copybook. it’s one step up from a needle and bottle of indian ink.

        1. scottser

          see 6th pic down. that design of the figure with its head up an @rse would pretty good on you, sido.

  2. Barry the Hatchet

    Some things should never be democratised! See also: neurosurgery, rocket science, dentistry.

    1. dave g k

      …And anal bleaching. I discovered the hard way that it was best left in the hands of a professional.

      LOL!

      1. Humans Eh!

        Thats how ‘Dave’s Law came to be implemented.

        And now, supermarkets cannot sell Domestos and a bottle brush in the same transaction.

        And self tattoo machines………………..
        What could possibly go wrong?

  3. Owen C

    Open up one of these on Christmas morning, proceed to guzzle down 10 glasses of wine over dinner, wake up on Stephen’s Day with a knob permanently etched onto your forehead. Merry Xmas everyone.

  4. Clampers Outside!

    Still doesn’t beat the circuit board and duracell battery jobby held together with duct tape on a beach in Kerala that was used for my first one :) …damn my ribs hurt thinking about it !

    1. Robyn

      Yeah, I don’t want to think about what happens if it activates when it is being smuggled in, concealed in someone’s, eh, sensitive areas!

  5. Niallo

    How to socialy lobotomise yourself in one easy step.
    Me ? I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

      1. Niallo

        Clearly you are excluding “m from “we all” i’ve no idea what your bangin on about, linkage pls.

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