In The Future, Tattoos Go Inside You

By Mark Lorenz on November 11th, 2009

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Yes, that’s right. In the future, you won’t be able to get tattoos on the outside of your body while drunk. In the future, you’ll put them where you put everything else when you’re drunk: inside of you.

Tattoos have been in vogue for thousands of years, and only lately, with the onset of hipsters, have they started to get really incredibly dumb. Look at this guy! I’ve got ironic tattoos of controller buttons AROUND my nipples? Isn’t that awesome? Where are you going? Well, now, with a digital implant, tattoos might get a lot cooler. And the old fashioned way will now give you way more street cred.

Cause they’re about to get digital. Conceivably.

The Digital Tattoo Interface, if it were ever to come to fruition, would power itself off of the glucose and oxygen in your blood to display things electronically IN YOUR FREAKING BODY. So you can then use it as a phone, computer, or monitor. How insanely awesome would that be? Where you can monitor your blood alcohol count, play a gigantic game of pong, or just magnify the head of Mr. T on your arm with a click? Of course, there would be purists. Just the same as regular picture frames vs. digital picture frames. Well, you can keep your digital picture frames, I want the HUD in my arm, sucker.