Comments on: Laser-engraved fingernails http://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/laserengraved-finger.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: jimkirk http://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/laserengraved-finger.html#comment-234177 jimkirk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-234177 Decades ago I had the idea of modifying a dot matrix printer (who remembers the DEC LA35) as a raster scanning tattoo needle. Didn't work. Then when ink jet printer came out, iron on tattoos. You print your design with an ink jet (or today, maybe a color laser printer) on transfer paper and get out your iron. Never actually tried it... Decades ago I had the idea of modifying a dot matrix printer (who remembers the DEC LA35) as a raster scanning tattoo needle. Didn’t work.

Then when ink jet printer came out, iron on tattoos. You print your design with an ink jet (or today, maybe a color laser printer) on transfer paper and get out your iron. Never actually tried it…

]]> By: sicklecell http://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/laserengraved-finger.html#comment-233689 sicklecell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-233689 Thats amazing. I love the little Zappa. Thats amazing. I love the little Zappa.

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