Android Girl knows no pain.

The admiration over the past decades popstars learned, is now often placed digital toys: Tattoos favorite phones or the Apple logo. With the "Android Girl" the scene now even an asterisk.
  Almost exactly at the beginning of the year, the Nerd scene a new starlet: The Android Girl "was a single photo to sudden fame in technology-affine circles. The picture is a young woman with light hair punkiger to see the einnehmendem look into the camera looks relaxed and the arms behind the head sets. Through these moves will inevitably pose a tattoo of a green cartoon robot on their forearm in the eye of the beholder. And this figure is the logo of Google's mobile operating system "Android."
Nerds are, according to Wikipedia "eccentrics, Streber, outsiders", mainly for technical and scientific topics of interest. After the usual stereotypes are nerds computer geniuses with meager social life, that is definitely not cool. In recent years, the image of technology fanatics, however, constantly changing, not least because digital technology in everyday life are increasingly important. Nerds are now no longer mandatory outsider. The role of digital technology specialists rather steadily gaining social prestige, and thus is also a figure as possible Android Girl: A cool, handsome nerd.
Zeitgeist
About the background of the Nerd-asterisk with high symbolic potential is actually having the unknown. The photo, the young woman with a strong penchant for mobile phone software abruptly made known, finds itself in a newly established MySpace profile. Apart from a handful of other images that are actually nothing new to tell, except that Android Girl getigerte a cat has, there are few tangible information. The woman under the synonym "Commodore", therefore, 23, lives in Houston, Texas, and hears any popular music styles.
The question of whether the Android Girl Selbstdarstellung to a female or nerds, but a fake, has not yet been clarified. For the effect of the background of this figure is actually irrelevant. Whether authentic or constructed, it represents one way or the zeitgeist perfectly. The fact that the passion for a computer program with a tattoo is confirmed, it connects Android Girl equally with pop culture and traditions hacker. Among programmers, or open-source technology activists are tattooed symbols and logos longer commonplace. Like the looks, shows a search in the online photo collection Flickr: Here you'll find dozens of tattoos on the first try with the logos of free operating systems, especially the Linux penguin, and the FreeBSD devil. But the search with the words "USB" and "Tattoo" promotes 45 hits to light, including almost ten people who are really the icon of a computer interface body in the skin have stung.
Everything Apple
A relatively new phenomenon whose tattoos are commercial products or logos. Obviously from genuine enthusiasm was last year, for example, a Briton and the label of the Playstation 3 game console on the forearm perpetuate. A US-Nerd, whose calf recently the smartphone BlackBerry Storm emblazoned in its original size, was opposed by the lottery of a mobile magazine motivated - which is obviously just a BlackBerry Storm to win there. Ober, the man already regretted his decision?
IN COOPERATION WITH ... De-BugMagazin for electronic Lebensaspektewww.de-bug.deAber as so often when it comes these days to everyday digital technology is to get even with the gadget tattoos on Apple does not pass. "It is no longer just about computers," said CEO Steve Jobs in 2001 in view of a fan with the apple logo on the skin. The corresponding Flickr search returns because nearly 1400 hits, of which a large part actually striking tattoos with the group logo shows. Among them are, of course, all design variants, Apple in the past 20 years has used. But even people with half a Mac screen on the skin, such as the user "dirk gently1", on whose arm the apple logo, multiple system icons and keyboard icon for the "Command" logo.
The devoted fan culture for digital products could Android Girl with a connecting symbol get. But even if the dynamics of the cult gadgets so receives a further boost, some devices will probably not be too cool pop culture accessories. This includes, for example, Microsoft's Zune music player: This was the scene for a "Zune Guy" Microsoft fan known only derision left, as this is the logo of the device in the skin puncture left. And after he was two more Zune tattoos increase was the Zune Guy final to become laughing.