Magnetic tattoo ink
Hi there,
I am a jewellery designer at the Royal College of Art in London and I am researching how biohack can be used for body embellishments. I am wondering if it would be possible to tattoo ink into the skin, which has magnetic particles. So if you would hover a magnet with a pattern over it, the tattoo could be transformed according to the pattern of the magnet. e.g. same way it works on nail polish with magnetic particles in it
Does anyone know if magnetic tattoo inks exist or if this effect would work under the skin at all?
Thanks in advance for your answers and help!
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Very exciting idea :)
Once tattoo ink is in your skin it does not have the freedom to move around unless it had a pocket. If it did not have a pocket it may create one causing an abcess
You'd probably be limited to large bands of light and dark rather then something like letters, but it's still a reprogrammable "tattoo-esque" device.
I'm not terribly interested in doing this myself, but both flexible epaper displays and OLED has been out for a while. In fact, theres an 18 inch flexible OLED/Epaper being produced by LG thats damn impressive. Being a single unit makes it easier. All the circuitry to drive it would need to also be external. The foot print may be circadia sized, but it wouldn't really need the thickness since it's not self powered... More like putting in a credit card rather than a wallet.
Overall, it's an ineloquent solution little different than a complicated way to tape a phone to your arm.
Two years ago, the tech has improved since then. If you can see it through the skin, this would be ideal.