A group of MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers explored the possibility of color-changing, health-monitoring tattoos. The smart ink can detect blood sugar elevation and dehydration. One of the ...

This woman’s boyfriend is a human coloring book. Maggie Moodie broke out her Sharpies and opted to spend hours upon hours filling in partner Scoobie Sousa’s tattoos. Despite the 22-year-old dropping ...

Scientists in Germany have developed three different tattoo dyes that change color based on the levels of certain health markers in the blood. Scientists are developing color-changing inks that may ...

When a pair of tourists hiking the Alps stumbled across the frozen remains of the mummy Ötzi in 1991 they also, unknowingly, discovered the oldest known examples of tattoos in history. The ...

A person applying the color-changing tattoo, and a color chart for the medical-alerting tattoo. Ali Yetisen et al. See more of our coverage in your search results. Soon, tattoos won’t just show how ...

In Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel The Diamond Age, body art has evolved into “constantly shifting mediatronic tattoos”—in-skin displays powered by nanotech robopigments. In the 25 years since the ...

Gone are the days in which tattoos were just permanent wearable decor on one’s body. Now, scientists are hoping to add some function to the permanent skin marking. Researchers at the Technical ...

Scientists in Germany have developed an intradermal tattoo that changes color in response to fluctuations in glucose, albumin, and pH levels. Tests on animal skin have shown that the tattoos ...

In the tattoo world, there's a common misconception that color tattoos are harder to achieve on deeper skin tones. However, tattoo artists who understand how to properly ink Black and Brown skin have ...