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3:17am August 15, 2013

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The Algaculture Symbiosis Suit
Science fiction costume? Actually this could be our future for sustenance. Even a possible solution to world hunger. As strange and cumbersome as this contraption looks, it actually feeds you algae. It’s a symbiosis suit, designed by artists Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta, that grows food while wearers go about their daily business. A self-sustaining source of food.
A series of tubes, placed in front of the mouth, capture carbon dioxide and feed it to a constantly-growing population of suit-embedded algae. But algae needs sunlight to grow, so the wearer must sit by a window or go outside long enough to meet the algae’s needs.
The suit debuted last year outside the Victoria and Albert Museum. There, an opera singer wore the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit, sang to the crowd and generated enough new algae populations during her performance that audience members were treated to a post-show snack.
Gagging yet? Well most people actually eat algae on a regular basis without knowing it. Foods such as sushi, ice cream and mayonnaise are all derivatives of algae.
“Algaculture designs a new symbiotic relationship between humans and algae. It proposes a future where humans will be enhanced with algae living inside new bodily organs, allowing us to be semi-photosynthetic [and]…entering into a mutually beneficial relationship with the algae,” the designers state.
If you want to see the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit in action, check out the video of the opera singer wearing the suit. The future is looking stranger and stranger.
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The Algaculture Symbiosis Suit

Science fiction costume? Actually this could be our future for sustenance. Even a possible solution to world hunger. As strange and cumbersome as this contraption looks, it actually feeds you algae. It’s a symbiosis suit, designed by artists Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta, that grows food while wearers go about their daily business. A self-sustaining source of food.

A series of tubes, placed in front of the mouth, capture carbon dioxide and feed it to a constantly-growing population of suit-embedded algae. But algae needs sunlight to grow, so the wearer must sit by a window or go outside long enough to meet the algae’s needs.

The suit debuted last year outside the Victoria and Albert Museum. There, an opera singer wore the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit, sang to the crowd and generated enough new algae populations during her performance that audience members were treated to a post-show snack.

Gagging yet? Well most people actually eat algae on a regular basis without knowing it. Foods such as sushi, ice cream and mayonnaise are all derivatives of algae.

“Algaculture designs a new symbiotic relationship between humans and algae. It proposes a future where humans will be enhanced with algae living inside new bodily organs, allowing us to be semi-photosynthetic [and]…entering into a mutually beneficial relationship with the algae,” the designers state.

If you want to see the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit in action, check out the video of the opera singer wearing the suit. The future is looking stranger and stranger.

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