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# PAUSE: Could QR tattoos revolutionize alternate reality games?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/pause-could-qr-tattoos-revolutionize-alternate-reality-g/
- Published: 2011-12-21T21:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:28:11.000Z
- Description: One of the concerns people always have when getting a new tattoo is with their longevity. Is that quote from Dante’s Inferno that you now have plastered across your chest, I resisted asking a friend in college, really going to have the same impact in twenty years? Well, one man found a way to circum
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

One of the concerns people always have when getting a new tattoo is with their longevity. Is that quote from *Dante’s Inferno* that you now have plastered across your chest, I resisted asking a friend in college, really going to have the same impact in twenty years?

Well, one man found a way to circumvent this, at least partially. [Cnet](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938%5F105-57345193-1/qr-code-tattoo-generates-random-links/?ref=killscreen.com) reports:

> The code may pop up with a GIF of a couple of headbangers swinging their hair around, or a recent tweet, a phrase, a video, or a weather report. Bosch calls it the first-ever random tattoo.  
>  
> If he wants to get meta with it, Bosch could have his QR code tattoo link to images of other tattoos. I would suggest some of our [Crave readers’ geeky tats](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938%5F105-20010707-1.html?ref=killscreen.com) or [T-Pain’s Facebook ink](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852%5F3-20030005-71.html?ref=killscreen.com).  
>  
> Surprise, surprise, this isn’t the first QR code tattoo we’ve heard about. A [marketing stunt for Ballantine whiskey](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852%5F3-20078153-71/man-has-qr-code-tattooed-onto-chest-really/?ref=killscreen.com) got there first.

This new type of inking could also add a whole dimension to alternate reality games. Try to imagine some new, QR-friendly form of Assassin or Humans vs. Zombies. Or maybe that will just lead to more [paranoid conspiracies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZzS4L2s6nw&ref=killscreen.com) of our brave new world.

–*Yannick LeJacq*

\[via [Cnet](http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938%5F105-57345193-1/qr-code-tattoo-generates-random-links/?ref=killscreen.com)\]