Posted on 01/04/2018 12:42:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
Chicago singer is using technology – both new and old – to hear her late grandmother’s voice whenever she wants.
Sakyrah Angelique got a tattoo under her left collar bone that an app can read using her cellphone’s camera.
Angelique tweeted a video Tuesday night of her listening to a voicemail from her grandmother.
✨s.o.s. @sakyrahhh 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❤️❤️
6:32 PM - Jan 2, 2018 · Surprise, AZ 1,395 1,395 Replies 72,919 72,919 Retweets 278,963 278,963 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Her grandmother made the phone call a month before she passed away, wishing her granddaughter a happy birthday.
Angelique said she was holding onto her grandmother’s voicemail for almost three years, not sure what to do with it.
Then, she discovered Skin Motion’s technology that enabled her to hear her grandmother’s voice. Whether it be a song, a bark of an old dog or a past loved one’s voice, a Skin Motion user can upload an audio file, tattoo the resulting “Soundwave” pattern and play the audio whenever they like by scanning the ink with an app.
Let us know how it sounds in 10-15 years.
Lol
That reminds me... I made a cassette recording from a morning radio show 20 years ago wishing my granddaughter a happy 4th birthday. What’s the cheapest easiest way of digitizing that 20-second audio?
Free program called Audacity.
That’s easy. Find a cassette recorder with an audio out, take a jack and plug it into the audio “in” on your computer. Use some free software, like Audacity, set the input to in-line and record.
Audactity and a USB audio interface. I bet your phone can take voice notes which can be emailed to your computer.
Hopefully everyone realizes that this is just an app on the phone that is triggered by recognizing the unique pattern. It’s impossible for the sound information itself to be encoded into a tatoo.
So you could just as well have a picture of Satan tatooed on your butt and trigger a recording of Hillary screeching. The waveform is just a unique pattern, the sound data is all in the app.
It looks like she was stitched up by a drunk surgeon.
“The waveform is just a unique pattern, the sound data is all in the app.”
Right. There is no way to tattoo a modulated waveform and have it sound like anything recognisable. She could have gotten by with a much smaller tat.
You might be able to play it into your cellphone as well. Even the cheapest flip phones a decade ago had an “audio record” feature somewhere.
Gimmicky for sure. Just put the audio file on the phone.
If you scan it upside down, which will be in reverse, does it say “Hillary Clinton is the Anti-Christ”?
Women and tats will always be scuzzy to me. Marking one’s self up seems quasi mental.
Thank you, all!
If you can write it on paper, you can tattoo it on skin.
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