After years of curiosity, Smarter Every Day’s Destin Sandlin went to a couple of tattoo shops to find out just how tattoos work and see how they look close up and slowed way down. With a Phantom Mira ...

In 1876, Thomas Edison patented the electric pen. Two decades later, a New Yorker named Samuel O'Reilly modified Edison's invention to create the first tattoo machine. Neither had the faintest idea ...

If you ever wondered what getting a tattoo feels like, just watch this super slow motion video showing up close shots of the tattoo needle relentlessly stabbing people’s skin over and over again so ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – If you've ever been curious about what a tattoo looks like up close and in slow motion, Redstone Arsenal flight test engineer Destin Sandlin has you covered. Earlier this week, ...

A new video from Smarter Every Day brings us up close and personal with the process of tattooing. The host, Destin explains how the two most popular tattoo machines (the coil and the rotary) function ...

Getting a tattoo is notoriously painful process but that doesn't stop all that many people from getting their skin inked. Luckily for them, tattoo machines have come a long way from the tools used in ...

Some people want a tattoo that no one else has. Others, like the clients of 29-year-old Canadian tattoo artist Phil Berge, want to be part of a bigger story. Well, a flipbook story, that is. SEE ALSO: ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Science and technology has created the ability to make tattoos talk. It looks like an ordinary tattoo, but a different kind of body ink is bringing memories to life in a new way.

There are plenty of tattoos out there featuring beloved cartoon characters, but this Hungarian tattoo artist is taking the relationship between animation and tattooing to a whole new level. Balazs ...