As part of an experiment to see how wildly gadget design can veer off the tracks of semblance and taste when the focus shifts from the human to mere feature subsets, Karten Design has crafted the Epidermits: a programmable, Furby-like toy (you know… for kids!) bio-engineered from a wad of Silly Putty, a coil of slimy pubic hair fished out of a bus station’s floor drain, a tramp stamp and a vibrating butt plug. It is a body modder’s huggable, saline-engorged scrotum turned teddy bear.
Naturally, it has become pretty much my most desired toy ever. Christmas has never seemed so far away.
Scariest Toy Concept Ever: The Epidermits Thing [Gadget Lab]
This is alarmingly close to the “KissMammal 2003″, a rather disturbing item for sale in the spoof home-shopping catalogue book “Unnovations” (amazon.co.uk) by Charlie Brooker. Suffice to say, the KissMammal has quite a, well, different use in mind.
I wonder if it could be trained to snuggle up to you while you’re sleeping?
Ahhhjibbliejibbliejibblie!!
Cyklo, I just *had* to search for the kissmammal. Woah. It’s gone beyond the simple jibblies now.
Here’s a little bit of Internet weirdness for you: Isn’t the lady in the stock photo on the (now parked) http://www.erotech-industries.com domain the same one in this morning’s mildly sexist washing machine ad post?
Regardless, how happy do you figure she’d be knowing she’s now a shill for EroTech Industries?