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Survive the Post Apocalypse with Artificial Organs aka better living through bionics.
When Japanese design studio Takram was tasked with designing a better water bottle, it instead opted to transform the human body. Takram wanted to create a water bottle for post-apocalyptic scenarios – situations in which water will be scarce. But rather than re-invent the water bottle the studio thought it would be better to modify the way the human body regulates and recycles water. The result is the Shenu Hydrolemic System a set of artificial organs. The idea is to enable humans to survive longer with less water. The system consists of Rubedo candies to provide nutrients to the user as well as sinus cavity inserts to inhibit water loss through exhailation, arterial-jugular heat exchangers and a heat irradiant neck collar to inhibit perspiration, a urine concentrator to control water loss through urination, and a renal fecal dehydrator to to elongate fecal duration in the large intestine and squeeze out any remaining water.
Images: takram design engineering
Once that great apocalyptic event—contagion, climate change, nuclear holocaust, zombies, whatever—drowns out the huddled masses of humanity, we can take solace in at least one thing: those who remain will have no shortage of suggestions from art and pop culture as to how best to carry on.
If it's a zombie scenario, they could, for instance, go Walking Dead and form a scrappy band and shack up in a prison. If it's disease, they could hack their bodies, adding Matt-Damon-in-Elysium-style cyborg arm implants to do combat with the rich. If it's rising sea levels, they could follow one Tokyo design firm's advice, and outfit themselves with artificial organs designed to make the human body more water-efficient.
What you're looking at above is a pile of the freshly designed artificial organs, ostensibly conceived to increase the human body's capacity for conserving water in resource-scarce, post-apocalyptic environs. The project came about when two South Korean artists, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, asked the noted Japanese designer Kaz Yoneda, of the renowned takram design engineering, to build a water bottle for the grimmest sort of future—one where the world was "Afflicted by manmade causes, the rising sea level, radioactive emissions and release of hazardous materials into the environment."
Moon and Jeon were, according to their statement, working on a project "to bring together designers, architects and big thinkers to envision life in a catastrophic, post-apolcalyptic future." So instead of designing a water bottle, Kaz went cyberpunk. Once he realized how scarce water would be in a world ravaged by disaster in the climate-changed future, he upgraded his ambitions, and put together something called the Shenu: Hydrolemic System.
In his team's words, here's how it works: "A set of artificial organs that work together to minimize intake and regulate water loss so that people with these organs can consume less water to survive. This includes: nasal cavity inserts to inhibit water loss through exhalation; a urine concentrator; a renal dehydrator; and a heat irradiant neck collar."
Put it all on, and the future apocalypse survivors will look something like this:
The end result is sort of a 21st century, post-collapse moisture-recycling survivalist cyberpunk aesthetic. If I do say so myself. It's like Paul Atreides and the Fremen took to the Road. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is about to open an exhibition of the team's work, and it features the first-ever stateside showing for the Korean artists.
Here's a breakdown of the conceptual tech, piece by piece. First up, here's the requisitely nefarious-looking steel briefcase that contains all the organ parts.
These will be toted by the leather-clad agents of the underworld militias that have inevitably arisen to fill the power vacuum. And, of course, scrappy heroes who've managed to get ahold of a couple.
Here are "Rubedo candies," the hard-shelled candies from which you'll draw your moisture.
"Five of these contain the new daily-required intake of nutrients and 32 mL of water," takram explains.
And of course, your nasal cavity inserts.
"The moist air from the lungs is condensed here and returned upon inhalation." Why didn't we think of that.
You're also going to need a heat irradiant neck collar, naturally.
This will convert "the electrical energy generated by the exchangers back into heat and radiate it through polymicroporous titanium grills."
Here's where things get a little gross. Because, well, post-apocalyptic living isn't pretty. So let's say it bluntly: you're going to need to recycle your urine and feces. NASA is working on something like this, so takram ran with it.
Those friendly-looking devices are a "hydrolemic bladder"—a "microcosmic water filtration and uric concentration plant"—and a "Renal Fecular Dehydrator." Which, just: "Located in rectal ampulla, the dehydrator works to elongate fecal duration in the large intestine and squeeze out any remaining water."
There you have it. Your complete set moisture-recycling wearable gear for the end times.
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Permalink Reply by KOMRAD RHINO☭ on
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looking at this realistically. i dont see this as a viable option for everyone. firstly i dont see everyone with this. this would be something only the super rich would be able to afford. secondly this is a very extensive and very dangerous bit of surgery. who in their right mind would even consider it. your talking hours of time under the knife with a danger factor that is totally out of this world. i doubt even the super rich would even want to chance this. thirdly they have not even taken into the fact that this stuff is foreign objects to the human body. this means that the human body can and often does reject these things. that would mean all these little gadgets would have to be removed the same way they were put in. under several hours of very dangerous surgery. this would mean if rejection didnt kill you after the surgery. then the reversal surgery very well could kill you. either way your dead. so why not just take the long road to China and live longer and healthier by just living off of ones smarts to stay alive? after all, the mind is the best weapon for survival in the long run. that will be the one and only thing one truly needs.
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Permalink Reply by saint.357 on
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all that is true right now, but in the future designer body parts will be as common as cars and other major appliances. sure the super rich will always have the best stuff but regular folks will be able to still ride the body modification mag-Lev train. they will also have better ways to prevent rejection. hell these things could be bio organic machines grown from the patrons own cells. they're already growing whole organs this way. why stop with just the ones god gave us. a hundred years ago the life expectancy was half of what it is now. and doctors say it will only go up. already its not strange to see people live over a hundred. why science bitch! and they say with our life times it may go up to over a thousand. and this water preserve system is only the tip of the iceberg. think of this there is more energy in a dollar bill then in all the nukes ever detonated. yet why is that we require large quantities of a very limited source of material to live. its because our body's are so bad at converting energy its less then one percent of one percent. if we could convert all of it not only would we not need to eat. because the little bits of dust and debris that we suck up from breathing would be more then enough to feed us and run all the power for new york. even if it was a quarter or even 5 percent of that power we would barely need to eat anything. to run at the speed of sound and lift buildings with one hand is the power we could posses. all while being immortal. okay thats very far down the line but still. they already have a prosthetic arm that has 25 of the 26 degrees of movement that a human arm does. were reach the cusp of human potential where we are no longer limited by nature god, or evolution. where we decide what we want to be. it is our birth right, no our destiny to continue where evolution left off and make ourselves better then nature ever could. god created us in his image but now we re-create ourselves as we see fit. Deus Ex Machina. The power of god, created by man!
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I learned a long time ago that what man makes can fuck up fast then one can spit. And the more machine you become. The less human you are and lose that one factor that makes us what we are. Our very humanity. I think that I would not want to lose what makes me what I am. And immortality is not what it's cut out to be. If we all lived forever. We would be making our own apocalypse it itself. Over population. What makes this world function is the passing of one generation so the next has a chance. The true natural order of things. This is what we call life. Sometimes it sucks. True enough. But this world would really suck if we were more machine the man and there was no more room left for another generation because of over population from not being able to pass on to a better plain of existence. Not a world for me bro. Sounds to much like Star Trek's The Borg to me. Loss of self. Loss of individuality. Loss of identity. Loss if our humanity. As many good point as this may sound to have. It also has many points way worse then zombies or even death to me. I think I shall stay as human as I can. And no implants that can be warped into something worse beyond our wildest dreams.
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let me ask you this what exactly makes you human. is it that flesh and blood meet suit we all pilot around. nothing more then an organic machine with meat battery's. animals have flesh and blood bodies, does that make them human. monkeys share 99 percent of the same dna that we do. are they human. it you say its our minds are intelligence our ability to self realize, our awareness. then what would happen if a machine become self aware. if a computer had all the awareness, realization and emotions that we have. would you call it human. what if we encountered an alien race just as aware and emotional as we are. how would you define humanity then. we think of our selves as special because until now we have been alone but the addition of another entity that shares our consciousness would shake what it means to be human. because in fact there is no set definition. what we are is always changing we are not a fixed point. and trying to stick to one place out of sentimentality is not for me. I'm sure the Neanderthals though they were the perfect being. moving forward is the only way we will survive. were over crowding the planet now. sooner or later we will have to take our first steps into space and find new homes among the stars. we have a vast universe and even vaster multy-verse to explore. all of it was not created so we could stick to one little blue rock in a sea of possibility.
and given enough advancement the line between machine and flesh will blur until you can't tell one from the other. genetically programed cells and organs. nano machines fused at a cellular level to form hybrid cells. new flesh that can withstand the boiling point of led and indestructible while still feeling as soft and malleable as our original casing.
as for the lose of originality and consciousnesses to a hive mind. thats already happening you would be surprised to know ho much of your actions behaviors and thoughts and dictated by the people around you. we only know ourselves through others eyes. say your in a room with nothing but a chair. how do you know that the chair really exists. your senses are merely electrical signals interpreted by your brain. theirs no way to prove its their. no say you are with another person. if they also acknowledge the chair then you except it as real. but what if the other person doesn't see the chair. how do you know its there. is that person crazy for not seeing the chair or are you for seeing it. in a more practical app,location of how others effect you. lets say your waiting in a line. someone cuts ahead of you. now everyone is going to get in and you position in line won't mater to the outcome. being first or last wont change anything. do you still get mad at the person who cut even though it doesn't mater. yes you do. because social rules say its wrong. realistically it doesn't mater but the group decides it should not be and so you get angry. i could give countless examples. as for hive minds you and me are already part of a simple one. the internet. take my other thread about cosplay. i posted new designs for my logo and i got feed back from jess. because of that i changed my mind and came up with another new logo that i like the best. were constantly learning new things and changing our opinions based on input from others. crowd sourcing is a perfect example of how a hive mind would work.
it's scare to move forward but doing so the real point of life. everything is always changing moving growing. you either take the step or fall behind in the dust. sure maybe you stumble. you may even destroy yourself trying. yes its a risk but its a risk worth taking. anything that stays in one place eventually stagnates and dies. hell eventually the whole universe is going to fall in to entropy. everything will go out like a flame in the wind leaving behind nothing. wouldn't you rather try new things before that. for me that drive to always reach for bigger and better things is humanity. mans reach should always exceed his grasp.
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i still feel that to much tech introduced to our bodies will make us less of what we are. granted we as a species need to move forward or die. but that does not mean to the point of losing ones self. do we let those around us influence us? yes. but that in the end is our choice to do. we dont have to take that advise given or listen to that opinion spoken. and i cant help but feel you misunderstand what being part of a hive mind really is. in a hive state of mind. your just the same as everyone else. you think the same. move the same. act the same. no individual thought or purpose. no individual actions that are not owned by everyone else. being who we are breaks that mold and makes us the people we are. the species we are. take that away and this is what we become with all that tech crap in our bodies.
how is this advancing? is this not a form of stagnation in itself? not this horse bro. not this horse. i would rather be good old fashioned me and grow on my own with my own thoughts and feelings then be this.
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i disagree and i think your focusing too much on the worst case scenario that is the Borg. they are a hive where all emotion and personality have been purge leaving behind only raw intelligence and information. where a true collective will share in everything thoughts fear joys. imagine connecting with another person completely, to understand them as well as you do your self. a collective will is not the loss of individuality but merely the ultimate form collaboration. thing how many people it take to do something like make a bridge. all those different personality's coming together to a single end. its the same thing with a hive mind only more efficient. i can understand your points but i guess I'm just more of a dreamer. one day we will have no need for body's but be free floating consciousness on a level of being we can't even imagine right now. i call it the plain of go, and it is the completion that all life is destined for. many may stumble on the way, even us. but if we fall it simply means that we weren't ready for it. and some other life somewhere will reach it.
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like i said bro. not this horse bro. not this horse. being a realist. the cons way outweigh the pros in my eyes. leaves way to much room for one person to be the dominant ruler with tons of slaves to work to death.
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well hey your call but wouldn't need slaves. by the time we have this kind of technological the era of a man having to work with his hands will be over. we will be free of the burden of having to spend our lives grinding away just to earn the right to live. just imagine what we could do if we were all free of having to earn money or worry about where our next meal was going to come from. where we explore and create and think with out a care in the world. just my personal dream.
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Where's the thing that makes us move though? The one thing that makes it all worth getting up for every day? The challenge? If one had it all at beck and call like that. Wouldn't it be rather dull? No challenge or strife? Sounds kinda boring to me.
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or you could have challenges beyond the humdrum of everyday life. imagine trying to create a sun or form a planet. here id like you to try reading this short story, The Last Question, By Isaac Asimov. i think it can explain it better then i can.
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i will have to check it out when i get home. i am using my iPhone to reply with right now. but i will check it out.
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Permalink Reply by Jessie W. Garrett III on
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Ok, my son is suffering from his body drawing the water out from the fecal matter in his intestines which is causing his intestinal and rectum problems, which we are fighting doctors over to get straightened out...The medicines in which they are giving him are doing their best to draw water into his intestines to get the blockage of fecal matter to move through his body...So as far as something pulling water from the fecal matter inside us, is to dangerous and can cause the problems my son is now suffering...The fecal matter that is passing through your body uses the water within your body to move through your system, so drawing the water from the fecal matter will cause that movement to either slow or stop totally...And I know this from the situation in which my 8 year old is facing as we speak, so as trying to reduce the water usage within one's body is more dangerous then the actual surgical procedures in which you would have to face to have these things placed in your body...
As it stands right now, until they can show me that my body will function normally without suffering shit like my son is suffering through as we speak, then maybe I can see a few bio enhancements being done...But until then, I'll stay original...(LOL)
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