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Cool interlude: Human hair tattoo

Started by mathewi · 6 months ago

This isn’t really relevant to much of anything, but I think it’s extremely cool: it’s a “tattoo” — or more of a micro-etching, really — done on the side of a single human hair with a focused ion-beam microscope ... Continue reading »

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  • I was expecting something else when you said "human hair tattoo"...

    Like someone getting a tattoo on their arm, but instead of ink, it was done with a hair transplant... Like, hair growing out the side of their arm.
  • Heh. Admittedly, that would be cool too -- but in a different way :-)
  • wow! nice article. thanks for sharing
  • i was expecting a balding man gettin a kind of stubble effect on his head or something? but you have to admit.... its not realy a tattoo?

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