Getting Official QR Code Tattoo To Prove You're Covid-Vaccinated
Interactive tattoos. Who knew?
It might even work. JL
Mar Maack reports in The Next Web:
One young Italian dude tattooed a QR code of the
client’s official EU covid certificate on their upper arm. The tattoo isn’t the actual QR code for the EU-wide covid certificate — AKA ‘green pass’ — which shows your vaccination status or negative test results. It appears to be a QR code linking to the official one, which is
way bigger and harder to render as a tattoo.
Smartphones always seem to run out of juice at the worst time. Luckily though, there’s an easy fix: use an age-old body modification scarring ritual to sear a permanent information conduit into your soft skin.
Or
at least that’s what one young Italian dude seems to believe. Earlier
this week, tattoo artist Gabriele Pellerone tattooed a QR code of the
client’s official EU covid certificate on their upper arm, Il Reggino reports.
Unfortunately, the original story doesn’t share the name of the brave
pioneer who got the tattoo — which is why I’ve affectionately named him
‘Italian dude’ — but you can see his genius idea actually works in
Pellerone’s video.
I also tried it on my phone and can confirm it does work. However, the tattoo isn’t the actual QR code for the EU-wide covid certificate — AKA ‘green pass’ — which shows your vaccination status or negative test results.
Instead,
it appears to be merely a QR code linking to the official one, which is
way bigger and harder to render as a tattoo. But hey, that’s just
nitpicking.
As far as tattoos go though… it’s not that bad?
Sure, Mr.
Italian dude’s fresh new ink could become outdated — my official covid
app might’ve actually generated a new QR code for me just the other day —
but so what. A lot of tattoos get outdated anyway, so why not be a
maverick and start something new?
Who
knows, maybe QR codes can even replace Chinese characters as the
quintessential tattoo that you don’t understand — linking to the
Wikipedia page on discus throw instead of your beloved Neopets.
Long
story short, ‘Italian dude’ is creating a brave new world of
interactive tattoos, and I want to live in it. Which is why I’m getting
this inked across my back:
As a Partner and Co-Founder of Predictiv and PredictivAsia, Jon specializes in management performance and organizational effectiveness for both domestic and international clients. He is an editor and author whose works include Invisible Advantage: How Intangilbles are Driving Business Performance. Learn more...
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