October 5, 2008: Epidermits

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Antimatter

Meh - standard shock tactic for grabbing attention. No real product, just a loosely dreamed up dystopian fantasy gizmo that may or may not be feasible to produce a few decades from now.

You can see it at MOMA, NYC, today.

All it really does is generate traffic on their website.

Once you get to their website, you have to click at least 5 times to get to this item... and that's only if you know how to get to it.

[Antimatter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You can see it at MOMA, NYC, today.

I'd love to, but NYC is too far from where I live. And while it's been feasible to grow tissue cultures into any reasonable shape for a decade or two keeping them alive outside the laboratory for long enough to get the product to the consumer is an entirely different story. And even if that could somehow be accomplished the tissue would quickly die without nourishments once out of the can. The MOMA specimen would only have to be kept alive for a few days and could be taken back to the lab nightly, but I'm willing to concede that even under these circumstances keeping the tissue alive for some days would actually be an impressive feat. IF they've actually done it - I suspect it might just be an "illustrative" prototype covered in soft plastic and not live tissue...

Originally Posted by Wired

A real-life version of the Epidermits made its debut at a MOMA show in NY, but there's no word if people actually tried to pet it. Would love to know if someone did.

I would love to know as well, as that would confirm or rule out my suspicion.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Once you get to their website, you have to click at least 5 times to get to this item... and that's only if you know how to get to it.

I know - my point is that now we've both seen their website. And as we both tried to find any additional info chances are we've seen a few other pages of their site along the way.