(Picture: Soundwave Tattoos/Skin Motion)

Do you ever wish that you could listen to a minute of your favourite tune whenever you wanted? Or hear your dog’s bark/child’s voice wherever you were?

Well, now you can.

Because sound tattoos are a now a thing, which means that you can have up to a minute of audio inked onto your skin. And you can listen to it through your smartphone.

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Soundwave Tattoos are the brainchild of LA start-up Skin Motion, and they’re marketing themselves as ‘a brand new way to express yourself using art and technology’.


‘What is more permanent, and more meaningful than a tattoo? A tattoo you can play back,’ they say.

(Picture: Soundwave Tattoos/Skin Motion)

All you have to do to is record or upload whatever audio clip you want to their app and then go and have it inked by a Skin Motion certified artist.



The idea came about when two friends got the opening line from Tiny Dancer tattooed by artist Nate Siggard.

As they were leaving his studio, Nate’s girlfriend said it’d be even cooler if you could actually listen to the tattoos.

And Nate realised that that was actually possible. He created one for himself of his girlfriend and their four-month-old baby saying “I love you”, and posted a video of it to Facebook.

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After that, messages started pouring in from around to the world from people who wanted one too – and now, they can get one.

The Skin Motion app is officially launching in June but you can pre-order your Soundwave Tattoos before then by signing up for the waiting list here.

The world is about to get a whole load noisier.

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