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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.

The system is only a concept right now and one would hope the world never comes to a point where it would be absolutely needed. But we know it will! and it's good to know people are planning for the Mad Max era, and that there's great potential for artificial organs to provide body enhancement and not just care and replacement. this is the future of survival people. you dont just prep your homes, cars and bunkers. but also our selves, designer body's. coming to an REI near you soon!
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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Yeah let's not get into that whole animal rights thing. That's a whole nother can of worms.

Just give me the nanobots and I'm happy...Though I would age a lot slower, the effects to me would worth the trial run to live to see my grandkids have babies...But that's one of those things that'll probably happen once I'm gone....(LOL)

if your not careful buddy. those nanobots could end up doing one of 3 things. either giving you your hair back, make you look like a WOOKIE, or worse take away ALL of your hair. lol. ;-) but hey. maybe you might like the Chewbacca look. lol.

The NEW Jessie.

worse case scenario. make you look like R2D2

LMAO!!!

(ROFLMAO)  Hell, give me hair like Chewy and I'll be bitchin over how much shampoo I have to buy to keep it soft and fluffy...(ROFLMAO)

   And if i end up like R2D2, hell, my hats would fit nicely...(LOL) No more hair in the way...(LOL)

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