Electronic, interactive tattoos

Thu, Jul 2, 2009

Consume This

Been thinking about tattoos lately. And although this image is not a tattoo I find it really lovely. Especially the lace one.

Bare Conductive

It’s Bare — a conductive ink for skin. A collaboration between Bibi Nelson, Isabel Lizardi, Matt Johnson, and Becky Pilditch. I am at once fascinated and frightened. Will take time to think and articulate why.

I found it via one of Howard Rheingold’s tweets, which linked to a Yanko Design post. Here is a video on how it works:

And as for tattoos here’s who I found in Montreal who is doing interesting work: Yann, Emilie Roby, and some of Sylvie‘s work. If you know of anyone else let me know. Looking for artists who do fresh and authentic work.

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