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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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the human genome is just one thing i dont feel should be tampered with. and when it comes to the works of the almighty. there are just some things we dont need to know. otherwise i cant help but feel if we go playing around with stuff we dont need to play with. then we very well could have a zombie apocalypse or worse. and yes. it can get worse. i dont look at it as stumbling. i look at it as self annihilation.
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Permalink Reply by saint.357 on
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i won't lie that could happen but hey thats the price you have to pay. even if we fail the universe will raise another to take our place. like i said its just my personal belief. while i believe that the move to these things will happen, and probably very slowly so that we become accustomed to them before we even know it. look at the adoption of computers and cellphones. you don't need to worry though as a purest you'll probably be long dead by the time all these things come to pass. while the rest of us stay immortal and young.
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true. i may be long dead by then. but it beats living in a world that will be overcrowded and dying from that very thing. that is why the natural order bro. we are born, we grow old and then we die so the next generation has a chance. because without this. the new generations to come will be doomed before they even have a chance bro. we just were not meant to live forever. and how can anyone look at bringing on the destruction of a whole world a small price to pay just to live forever and be young forever? that is a price to high to even consider. that is like taking your first born and feeding them to the zombies yourself bro. so not worth the price to live forever in my eyes. way to high. a Pyrrhic victory if you ask me.
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you argument only makes sense if were still cramped in this little rock we call earth. if we go out and colonize other planets then we have nothing to worry about from over crowding.and hell birth rate are already on the decline in country's around the world. the wold might not be as over crowded as you think. and as for destroying our selves not being worth the risk. we do that already. hell we nearly destroyed our selves with the cold war. all over a pissing contest between two country's. if we have to go out I'd rather it be in search or immortality or the grand unified field theory. something more noble then then a glorified schoolyard fight.
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dude. a loss of life even for certain types of knowledge in my eyes is still a Pyrrhic victory. some things we were just not meant to know. yes. if we can make a life on other planets. that would serve a purpose of our species as a whole surviving. as for us already destroying ourselves. that would seem even more of a reason to NOT want to do it any further. the Cold War being an excellent example of this. to continue further trying to become more robot then human or achieving immortality. what if thats a Cold War in itself? and that is just what it is. another version of the Cold War. what if we never find that secret? then how many would have died in the process? how many maimed or mutilated for the rest of their meager existence? and for what? all for a pissing match with the almighty. an "I GOT YOU LAST" contest with the great creator over his secrets. thats not even a Pyrrhic victory. thats worse then a Pyrrhic victory. thats just a plain tragedy.
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your going under the assumption that god doesn't want us knowing the secrets of existence where as i believe he created us for that very purpose. anything else just kinda makes good seam like an asshole. think about Adam and eve. he gives them a great big beautiful place with no rules, or consequences except to not eat from this one tree. then place the tree there why even tempt them. these are beings who don't understand the word no, who never to take responsibility the whole concept is foreign to them. and then why let the snake into the paradise. why let it talk to eve. your god all knowing all powerful and every where at once. you knew what was going to happen you could have stopped it but didn't he basically set them up to fail. sounds like a dick move to me. not to put down anyone's religion i just find a lot of things wrong with modern religion.
i mean why would an all powerful being want to be worshiped in the first place. is it just me or does it seam like an ego trip. and you get damned to hell even if you were a good moral person just because you dont believe in the one particular faith out of the hundreds of thousands that existed. all while hiding his presence completely except for a limited time, to a select group of people, in a single fixed region. after humanity had already been around for hundred of thousands of years. so what about all the people before that. they weren't worth of being saved. again just my thoughts not bashing people who believe differently just my two cents.maybe I'm right maybe I'm wrong but if those profits really did see god then their words and messages have been mistranslated erased doctored or misunderstood over the decades by greedy and stupid people for their own ends. dark ages anyone. again just my two cents.
i believe god set the universe into motion to raise an intelligent species to the point where they could then understand the fundamental make up of creation and rise to become gods themselves. for what reason who know, we'll just have to ask him.
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all of what you said on Adam and Eve falls under a thing that is mentioned in the good book called free agency. the right to choose. Eve had the ability to choose whether or not to listen to the serpent. as a result, Eve also had the ability to choose whether to partake of the forbidden fruit or not. just as Adam had the freedom of choice whether to let himself be talked into eating the same fruit or not. i often wondered what would have happened if one chose to eat and the other chose not to eat. would they have both been wiped out as a reset or another Eve made after just casting first one out only. would i like to ask the almighty this? sure but i am in no hurry to. and when it come to trying to be like him or by making things and saying not even GOD can destroy it. that has always met with disaster time and again. the TITANIC is a good example of that. they did after all described it as the unsinkable ship and its very creator said even god couldnt even sink it. but the first iceberg it met proved man wrong on that. and you do have another point. when it comes to profits. their words are very misinterpreted and the most rewritten book in history has been the Holy Bible. rewritten to the point that only god himself truly knows what the original ever said. yes. it says in the holy bible that god made man in his image. but it didnt say he made us to be like him or become like him or greater then him. and i am sure we as a species are not done evolving. only time will tell on that one going by the natural order. but if we were to go the way of implants just for the vain sake of wanting to live forever and be forever young. thats going against what was meant to be. sorta like the Titanic really. just as they challenged a the almighty by saying it was unsinkable. whats to say all these implants and circuit boards wont be met with the same results? in a nutshell there is no way to know exactly what the almighty wants for us. but i cant help but think that if we were to try these things to bypass the natural order. it will always be met misery and pointless death. maybe even worse. its just one of those things that i will never be convinced will either work or should be even tried.
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true eve and Adam had free will but they also never had consequences or rules before. they were very much like children being told not to touch the stove. sure you can tell them its hot and bad all you want. but until they actual get burned they'll never truly understand. it just seamed like the whole thing, like with a lot of things about religion just make god out to be more of a kid with a magnifying glass burning an ant hill then a loving deity. think about it in the old testament he killed an whole city of children just to teach one man a lesson and free the Jews. innocent children, and why cause they weren't the chosen people.
and i guess thats the difference between you and me on this. I'm an optimist i think things will work out, and your a pesemest. sure the titanic sunk but a lot of other things that were once thought of as going against the natural order that went fine. lighter then air flight, walking on the moon. and countless other human achievements
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its not so much looking at things as a pessimist. i look at thing as a whole. so i do see the good that can possibly be. but i also see the negative to. and on something that radically changes the human genome and for so drastically. the negative way outweighs the positive on so many levels. so many would die on the trail and error alone. and when that is the case. its something i cant be sold on even by the best of the best. all i can see is the graves being dug. i know they have said these things about flight, the moon walk and other topics. but when it came to flight. this had pretty well been mastered over time with the utmost minimal losses, space exploration with even less. hence good examples of an achievement that has had major impacts on life without massive loss of life. before settling on one side. weigh them both on how much life they save versus how much life they can take. when you find it can kill more then what it can save until fully developed. thats when the development just is not worth it. that is how i measure things. plus being i tend to be somewhat of a naturalist. this whole thing just screams wrong to me.
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Well I'm a futurest and all of this excites me. People will die trying anything new. How many people died develping vacines more then you would think. Of course with new technology it may be posible to do all of this with very little to noloss of life. That's why we do animal testing. Well its clear enither of us are going to ocnvince the other so should we jsut shake hands and leave it at that?
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its all cool bro. i can figure out what you are saying. my iPhone tends to do a misspell to every now and then. yeah we can shake hands and leave it at that. no biggie. and being an animal rights person. i tend to frown majorly on animal testing. not a big plus in my book. lol. but thats a whole new topic. ;-)
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