Adams: iPhones are for sissies, I want this!

Digital Tattoo Interface! At this year's Greener Gadgets Design Competition, Jim Mielke demonstrated a Bluetooth cell phone, complete with video display, that's powered by the body's own blood supply. The device is embedded between the skin and muscle and connected to an artery and a vein. Glucose and oxygen in the blood power the device, just as they power the organic parts of the body.

The device is unobtrusive until activated. Then the light sensitive material that makes up the tattoo changes from clear to black and the display appears. When you're done using it, turn it off and it disappears again. It seems like you could download the design for any tattoo of that size you'd like and change it at a whim or have nothing at all show up (handy for job interviews!). Throw some internet access and maybe a couple of games on that sucker and you can sign me up right now.

Tattoo Artists Flock To Little Rock

If you see a lot more people walking around Little Rock with tattoos, that's because thousands of people, and tattoo artists from around the world are in Little Rock for Inksplosion, the second annual tattoo convention in Arkansas. Friday through Sunday, the Statehouse Convention Center will be full of people getting tattoos, entertainment, seminars, and competition.

They say it's an addiction, after you get your first tattoo, you keep going back for more.

And right now, there are thousands in Little Rock, adding even more tattoos than they already have.

For some, tattoos are symbolic, others, have them for fun. But the process can cost thousands of dollars, and it's not easy or quick. For many, the price and the pain is well worth it.

Britney Spears has Kabbalah tattoo removed

Britney Spears has had her Kabbalah tattoo removed. Spears had a Hebrew tattoo on the back of her neck bearing one of the 72 words for 'God' found in the texts of Kabbalah, a mystical branch of Judaism. However, when the 26-year-old singer was spotted out shopping in Los Angeles earlier this week, it was clear she has had the tattoo removed. .

TV Producer Hopes Tampa Ink Makes Its Mark

TAMPA - At the tender age of 49, Mike Cooper got his first tattoo this week. He sat quietly in the red dentist-type chair at Addicted 2 Tattoos while shop owner Lenny Welch applied the buzzing needle. He swore he felt nothing.

Within an hour, the image of a snaggletooth skull tearing through the ripped-open flesh on his left shoulder emerged. It was just the beginning.

Cooper will have to return for the rest of the ink, a sprawling scene on his back of a seascape with his own charter boat as the centerpiece. There will be birds and fish, sky and sea.

The Tampa charter boat captain is also getting into the tattoo business, or rather, the business of showing the business. He doubles as a television producer and has made several local fishing shows.

A new world opens to Derung tribes

BEIJING, Jan. 10 -- In the mountains of Southwest China's Yunnan Province lives one of China's least known and smallest ethnic groups, the Derung people. They have a population of around 5,000 and are named after the fast-moving river called Derung which gushes from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into the valley where they live.

Enclosed by several mountains, the Derung villages are inaccessible for more than half a year due to heavy snow.

The Derung have their own traditions passed on orally and through practice, as they don't have a written language. But the most distinct feature of the people is quickly fading -- girls don't tattoo their faces any more.

The custom was practised when a girl turned 12- or 13-years-old.