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Talking Tattoos

 (UPI) A Chicago woman’s unusual tattoo isn’t just a visual reminder of her late grandmother — it plays the woman’s final voicemail.

Sakyrah Angelique tweeted a video showing the tattoo under her left collarbone being scanned with a smartphone app that then played the last voicemail she ever received from her grandma, a happy birthday message from three years ago.

“My grandma passed away my junior year of high school. A month before she passed, she left me a voicemail wishing me happy birthday. Today I got that exact waveform tattooed across my heart, and I am able to play it just by holding my camera over it,” Angelique wrote.

Angelique said the tattoo and app use Skin Motion technology, which allows a user to upload an audio file and have it play whenever the relevant “Soundwave” pattern is scanned with a smartphone or other app-enabled device.

You can see it being played back HERE.

HT/ Rosalind

11 Comments on Talking Tattoos

  1. Tattoo ink gradually bleeds into neighboring tissue and sharp lines lose their definition over time. I wonder how long she’ll be able to “play” that waveform?

    I can appreciate the sentiment, but question her chosen method of expressing it.

  2. Suppose you could get a tattoo where if you hold a special lens over it words or images appear, like they do for assay security on coins and bars or 3D movies. In theory (in my head), this could be blended to play a 3D video with audio via tattoo, turning the person into a record player of sorts. Spin for me! what a great party trick.

  3. Sorry, no, I don’t think this is any kind of fancy technology. Here’s my guess about what is going on: The camera takes a picture. It could be a picture of a waveform, or could be a picture of a basketball. It doesn’t matter. The phone just takes a picture. That’s sent up to some service somewhere which matches it against the database of other pictures of people have sent in for this purpose. It find the match which also comes with an associated sound file. The sound file is sent back and played. The customer gets a permanent reminder of being taking in by a stupid scam. It’s a slightly slicker version of the star registry.

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