{"id":245180,"date":"2026-10-10T09:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/light-responsive-inks-could-make-tattoos-visible-on-demand-but-safety-remains-unproven"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:24:25","slug":"light-responsive-inks-could-make-tattoos-visible-on-demand-but-safety-remains-unproven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/light-responsive-inks-could-make-tattoos-visible-on-demand-but-safety-remains-unproven","title":{"rendered":"Light-responsive inks could make tattoos visible on demand, but safety remains unproven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-responsive-inks-could-make-tattoos-visible-on-demand-but-safety-remains-unproven.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers has designed a new line of multicolored tattoo inks that switch on and off with different kinds of light. Described in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/matter-light\/fulltext\/S3117-5848(26)00119-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Matter &amp; Light<\/i>, the technology could one day help people hide their tattoos when they have an important business meeting. They could even doodle on their own skin using a simple laser pointer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTattooing is a very ancient technology that remains mostly untapped as a platform for today\u2019s technologies,\u201d says lead author Carson Bruns of the University of Colorado Boulder.<\/p>\n<p>The new inks, known as PhotoTat, are made from dyes and a Plexiglas-like material common in many medical technologies on the market today, including dermal fillers. The research is a passion project for Bruns, who has a lot of his own tattoos, including a green lion on his arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers has designed a new line of multicolored tattoo inks that switch on and off with different kinds of light. Described in a study published in Matter &amp; Light, the technology could one day help people hide their tattoos when they have an important business meeting. They could even doodle on their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}