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Cool interlude: Human hair tattoo
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, by the engineering department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The tattoo would be cool enough all by itself, but the fact that my oldest daughter goes to McMaster makes it extra cool :-)
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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?