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This is so strange – I wonder sometimes why people put so much effort into something that will probably never be used.  I think I would have focused my energy on something like a whole new tattoo machine design.  The current machine is pretty “old School” and really hasn’t changed drastically over the years.

But this automatic tattoo machine is really off the wall.  I’ve been trying to come up with scenarios where it would be used.  Possibly someday these machines will be at the mall – you push in some cash and you get a stamp of a tattoo for like $15.00…? How can it ever compare to an artist?  How can it judge depth?  How deep the needle is going?

The inventor Chris Evert has a video available for viewing and I was floored by the quality that it churned out.  It seemed as if the video was edited.  There was absolutely zero blood visible.

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Tattoo Trivia

by on Aug.29, 2007, under News, Tattoos-Body Art

The first electric tattoo machine was first invented by Thomas Edison in 1876, who drew out blueprints for an electric engraver that became the machine that revolutionized tattooing. Patents for tattoo machines were filed less than ten years later by different individuals, each adding their own improvements. Samuel O’Reilly is credited with the first created “electric pen”, the device built from the Edison blueprints.

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