A Chicago woman found a touching way to hear the voice of her late grandmother. Sakyrah Angelique Morris tattooed the waveform of a voicemail from her late grandmother over her heart, and it plays back through her cellphone.
According to a viral tweet that she posted on Tuesday (Jan. 2), the singer-songwriter’s grandmother died when she was in high school.
“My grandma passed away my junior year of high school,” she tweeted. “A month before she passed, she left me a voicemail wishing me happy birthday. Today I got that exact waveform tattooed across my heart, and I am able to play it just by holding my camera over it.”
My grandma passed away my junior year of high school. A month before she passed, she left me a voicemail wishing me happy birthday. Today I got that exact waveform tattooed across my heart, and I am able to play it just by holding my camera over it❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/nwoQ2Bn1DM
— ✨s.o.s. (@sakyrahhh) January 3, 2018
The technology is possible through the app Skin Motion, which can play up to 30 seconds of soundwave tattoos through mobile phones and tablets.
According to a well-informed Twitter user, the application isn’t exactly reading the message from her skin, but rather “stores an image of the waveform” and plays it from an audio file.
You’re partly right. Unfortunately the truth of how this works is less magical. In reality, the app stores an image of the waveform. When a similar image appears, it plays the audio file. It’s not “reading” it from the skin. It’s simply looking at it like a QR code.
— Photoshop Fails (@ThePeopleJudge) January 3, 2018
With all of the attention that she’s been getting over the tweet, Morris can’t help but think that’s she has a guardian angel in her corner.
This is literally my grandma looking out for me.
— ✨s.o.s. (@sakyrahhh) January 3, 2018