A New York City tattoo artist, Samuel O’Reilly, was granted a patent for the first tattooing machine in 1891. By adapting Thomas Edison's design for an electric pen, O’Reilly created a tattoo machine ...

Best tattoo machine for beginners: FK Irons, ... The pen-style design provides freedom and comfort, with an ergonomic grip that feels natural in the hand, even during extended sessions.

Greensburg tattoo shop owner Nick Christofano has inked himself into the industry history books. After 28 years in the business, Christofano received a patent late last year for a tattoo machine ...

Working with his fellow design students, Piotr Widelka and Johan Da Silveira, Emm took a MakerBot Replicator 3-D printer and reconfigured it to "make the machine more incarnate," as he describes ...

Still, it wasn't long before the machine was installed on the print head, and a rough design was inked onto practice material. A problem soon became apparent, however.

It’s 9:30 on a drizzly morning in San Francisco’s SOMA district, and the day is just getting going at Seventh Son Tattoo. As I sit on a leather couch at the front of the studio with tattoo ...

Learning from other prisoners, he built a crude, single-needle tattoo machine with a Bic pen, ... Front and center is a graphic octopus design by pioneering L.A. tattoo artist Kari Barba, ...

People can get inked with a design drawn from the shop's vending machine -- the kind usually reserved for gum balls or plastic jewelry. The designs include things like snakes and devil heads. It ...