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Following up on the “Farm your body” article I found the great site of Marcia Nolte. I don’t understand what she writes (I guess its dutch), but she does have some amazing pictures:

Having problems with your mp3-player too? Get a new ear that fits the

It’s cheaper then cyberears and you don’t have to worry about empty batteries.

This hand is dedicated for mobile devices like your crackberry.

Useful, not only for lawyers. Hands up if you belong to the happy few who don’t have this kind of electronic manacles with you.

Build in high-heels are much better for your health.

Hard times coming for shoe fetishists.

Smokers might go for a new lip.

I woudn’t, but then I don’t smoke.

If you need glasses, this IS useful.

Okay, you might add that having good eyes won’t be harder then getting that extravagant nose, but then what about a jewelers lens or night vision goggles?

Why?

Regarding yesterdays post, bOINGbOING has some great artwork:

bOINGbOING: Eye freak

The comments on bOINGbOING are well worth reading this time.

A new eyeball for a lady

Tanya Vlach lost her eyeball in a traffic accident.

I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature camera implant in my prosthetic / artificial eye. The intraocular installation of an eye-cam will substitute for the field of vision of my left eye that I lost in 2005 from a car accident. While my prosthetic is an excellent aesthetic replacement, I am interested in capitalizing on the current advancement of technology to enhance the abilities of my prosthesis for an augmented reality.

Details can be found here.

I got some scary pics from Michael Burton for you. He is interested in cohabitation of beneficial bacteria (look at the pic of the guy with three layers of fingernails. They are supposed to be a breedingground for bacteria which, after being transfered into your mouth, will benefit your health.) and humans.

His other pics suggest that humans might (forced or willingly) farm their body for hormones, hair and other valuable substances to generate a living. See for your self, the pictures set the imagination reeling. He’s such a great artist and thinker…

In an early stage a special lamp is required to further growth.Three layers of fingernails are three times as much beneficial bacteria.

Fingernails:

Three layers of fingernails are three times as much beneficial bacteria.

Feet:

Weapon? Designed to enhance running speed?

Hair:

Harvesting your hair has a long tradition. This lady sells more hair then the average girl.

Next:

More hair harvesting.

Next:

This looks like a unwiedly way to harvest your body... REF -2, at least

 

The Street finds its own uses for things – uses the manufacturers never imagined.
- William Gibson, Rocket Radio

I had to remember this bonmont from the feather of the Grandmaster of Cyberpunk, William Gibson (if you don’t know the Rocket Radio Story, which has – to my knowledge – only been published in the Rolling Stone Magazine (June 15th, 1989), its available online) when I saw this photos by the German photographer Thomas Kalak:

A simple plastic bag and a straw= its a bottle.

There’s a lightbulb in the bottle. The plastic wrapping will make it glow red in darkness.

It would be trash for you, but to them its a solution.

Someone created a mop from old socks.

And I wondered where all those AOL Disks went. They now do something useful in Thailand. For the first time…

So why do I bother you with these pics? You probably never lived in a slum. Cyberpunk characters do. Usually. Its called combat zone, no-police area or sprawl. William Gibson was fascinated by these reuses of tech. You should, too. That’s why. Plus its terribly interesting. (via)