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[dreams] Organ Pockets
Saturday night, I dreamt I’d started a novelty toy line called “Organ Pockets”. Basically, I was selling 1:1 replicas of human organs in either plushie form or as foam rubber, and each came in a tailored pocket with zipper and snaps, where the pocket was available in leather, latex or various flannels. One of my production challenges was that human organs to scale have a rather wide size range, from the vast and ropy intestines to the tiny little gall bladder.
The weird part is, I suspect somebody could actually make money doing this.
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Jay Lake: [dreams] Organ Pockets http://t.co/lSGnoRwj
[dreams] Organ Pockets http://t.co/Sgkw7ZS6 (via @jay_lake)
Of a similar theme:
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/
I once worked with a neurologist who carried his physician’s bag with a giant stuffed neuron tied to it.
See also iheartguts.com.
I bought my dad a new plush pancreas and spleen after his surgery. They aren’t to scale, and they don’t have convenient pockets, but they do have nice peaceful smiley faces.
You should totally start a business making these, there’s money in those organs! If Jil Sander can sell these:
http://www.examiner.com/article/jil-sander-290-dollars-brown-paper-bag-purse
(and they sold very well apparently) you can sell organ bags!
I can’t help but wonder where @thinkgeek’s plush microbes (http://t.co/oMY5FXY3) fit with @jay_lake’s organ pockets (http://t.co/jM8TrYD0)…
if you can buy a plush e coli, why not a plush duodenum?