Milan Fashion Week: Models carry fake heads on Gucci catwalk
Feb 2018, BBC
On a scene designed as an operating room, fashion pinnacle Gucci sends its models down the runway holding their own heads in their hands. These heads look exactly like the people holding them.
Quick reminder - there was an artist a few years ago, biohacker Dewey-Hagborg, who made the paper because of her accurate 3D replicas of your head, off DNA you left in public, like on a straw or a coffee cup, or her favorite - cigarette butts.
There's only so many genes that code for face shape (5?). But she also puts the found genome against a real-human genome database, and pieces together other data like family history.
Together all this info gives her a general idea of what that DNA would look like if it were to make a face, and she designs and prints that face.
But why does this image creep me the f out? Recent headlines like these:
- Scientists Create Artificial Womb
- Baby Lynlee 'born twice' after life-saving tumour surgery; They take the baby out, perform surgery on her, and put her back in for 12 weeks
- Children receive new ears grown from their own cells in world first
- New lung 'organoids' in a dish mimic features of full-size lung
- Pig-Human Hybrid Created in Lab
- Wiring Monkey Brains Together Has a Point, Say Scientists
- No, there has not been a successful human head transplant
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