(My hand immediately after I implanted a vial) I used one of the RFID needles to implant a vial in my left hand. (picture of the vials in a piece of chicken) After all, chicken skin may be much thinner or more transparent than human skin and the chicken was dead, live skin may block far more light. But I was still not sure how well this experiment would translate to implanting in my own body. The result was very encouraging, the vial was clearly visible through the chicken skin. I decided to buy a few tritium vials and to do some tests, in true DIY grinder spirit I went to the local supermarket and bought some chicken drumsticks with skin on, I then slid vials under the skin and turned out the lights. I did some reading, and talked to some friends about it, they thought it was a cool idea, but were unsure of the light would be bright enough to be seen through the skin. I thought it would be really cool to implant one of those lights, my skin would glow indefinitely. Then I thought of those cool glow in the dark keychain lights, they use Tritium gas to glow for decades without the need to be charged. I’d been thinking about implantable LED lights, somewhat similar to the NorthStar (although it didn’t exist at the time), one of the big issues was power, batteries are dangerous, they take lots of room and need recharging often. The long story of how these were developed: If you do try, please let us know your results. ![]() You are welcome to try anyway, but the result will not be as impressive as in the example pictures. They may not be visible at all, or if they are visible, they will be dimmer than in people with pale skin. So far all tests have been done on caucasians, obviously higher melanin levels block more light, so the implants will not work as well in darker skin. I’m black/Indian/have darker skin, will the lights work for me? However, by examining you in the dark, it would be obvious. Only an xray would allow someone to see there is an implant, but even then they would not know it is a Firefly Tattoo. No, since the radiation is being shielded to make the implant safe, it also stops it from being detected. We believe that this implant is safe enough that people don’t need to be concerned, but ultimately you need to make your own informed decision. It is extremely unlikely, but any exposure to even the smallest amount of radiation increases the odds of getting cancer. Obviously given the Firefly Tattoos are new we don’t know exactly how long they will remain visible for, however after 6 years the implant will still retain 75% brightness, which should still be visible. This means that after 12 years the implant will be half as bright, after 24 years it will be half as bright again. This has pros and cons being invisible in fully lit areas means you can’t show them off as much, but it also means people who work in customer facing roles won’t have to remove or cover them up like they do with piercings and tattoos. In a brightly lit room and outdoors during daylight they are not visible at all. In a dimly lit room they are visible but do not stand out. The images in this post should give you some idea of how bright they are, but to give you some examples: In full darkness they are eye catching from across a room. These implants are available now from in colours green and yellow. (my hand showing the healed implant at night, long exposure was used to get a good picture) ![]() Firefly Tattoo implants run for many years without the need to be recharged, provide a striking glow in the dark implant, and are small enough to implant using an injection. By applying a specially designed coating containing a layer of lead oxide glass, we are able to reduce the radiation emitted and make implant safe lights. Standard tritium lights are safe to handle but do emit a small amount of ionizing radiation, which makes them unsafe to implant within the body. Tritium lights are used in watches, gun scopes and emergency exit signs. Tritium gas decays and emits beta radiation which collides with phosphor and emits photons. Subdermal tritium lighting implants, or Firefly Tattoos as they are called, use the decay of tritium gas to make glow-in-the-dark implants. Firefly Tattoos (Subdermal tritium lighting implants)
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