Maybe my future is to easy with synthetic animal skins, I guess the haute couture version will be custom bio-designed animal skins.

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after posting this last May, I just brought it up as a reference with an illustrator, who clued me that it is a hoax. Well at least it makes good sci-fi reference.

Working on a new story about Hex. The story revolves around Scrubbers. In the world of Palomar City, serious air pollution is a way of life. Those that can afford it get Scrubbers. This is like having an air conditioner filter inserted into your larynx. After the operation you end up with two gill like slits on the side of your throat, for added airflow and for maintenance. The up side: you don’t die from lung cancer or respiratory failure at 28 years old.

The seeds of elective body modification are born every day. These out of a tragic accident, but a truly inspiring story via Fresh Air on NPR.

“My biological body will degrade in time due to normal, age-related degeneration. But the artificial part of my body improves in time because I can upgrade. … So I predict that when I’m 80 years old, I’ll be able to walk with less energy than is required of a person who has biological legs, I’ll be more stable, and I’ll probably be able to run faster. … The artificial part of my body is, in some sense, immortal.”

Photo: Len Rubenstein/Crown Business

Here’s a true foundation for bio-electric body mod controls. This one came from io9.com

[This technology] provides a huge conceptual advance in wedding the biological world to the cyber world in a manner that is very natural. In some sense, the boundary between the electronics world and the biological world is becoming increasingly amorphous. The ramifications of this are mind-blowing, to say the least.

Thanks for the tip [Geek].

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