#Italian dude gets a QR code tattoo to prove he’s covid-free

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“#Italian dude gets a QR code tattoo to prove he’s covid-free”

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.