Children, please don't put the Epidermits in your mouth or your ass

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]

[#1 posted by cyklo , September 18, 2008 6:52 AM]

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.

[#2 posted by dculberson , September 18, 2008 7:05 AM]

I wonder if it could be trained to snuggle up to you while you're sleeping?

Ahhhjibbliejibbliejibblie!!

[#3 posted by dculberson , September 18, 2008 7:50 AM]

Cyklo, I just *had* to search for the kissmammal. Woah. It's gone beyond the simple jibblies now.

[#4 posted by Sensei , September 18, 2008 1:25 PM]

Let's not forget the (very NSFW) LoveLump, from EroTech industries, which is actually artist Christopher Ryan Moses...

This one made me lose a few hours of sleep some years ago, trembling with terror at the thought that it might actually exist.

[#5 posted by Maneki Nico , September 18, 2008 4:02 PM]

Here’s a little bit of Internet weirdness for you: Isn’t the lady in the stock photo on the (now parked) 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?