Would you get a tattoo from a 3D printer? The 3D X Tattoo Machine is a new 3D printer that is able to produce tattoos on skin, puncturing the skin at around 150 times per second. The video posted below shows the machine working on prop limbs, demonstrating its ability and consistency.
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One of the questions raised by this new machine, aside from the distance it causes from the heart and relationship given by artist to customer, is the machine's ability to deal with actual human skin, and the movement and possibly jarring that can come when getting a tattoo. The video below only shows the machine working on fake limbs, not actual people.
What do you think? Would you want to give up the relationship with your artist for this new, possibly more accurate 3D machine? Watch a video of it in action below.