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The new stupid: Design firm announces protective virus-proof suit designed for concerts and clubbing
Hopefully, people can return to their normal social lives soon, but just in case we are living in some type of post-apocalyptic cyber-punk pandemic, an inventor is creating a hazmat suit that is built specifically for going out to the club. The suit comes with a tight-fitting helmet, an air filtration system, and LED lighting accents.
Miguel Risueno, head of inventions for Production Club, is behind the inventive design.
"Micrashell is a solution for bringing people together safety. It's a half suit that kind of takes your safety and your security in terms of being close to airborne particles or viruses to the next level," Risueno told NBC New York.
Risueno explained that he came up with the idea after seeing the debates about people going out to spring break during the pandemic.
"How can we bring events, how can we bring socialization back in? How can we help the industry not die? We said we still need to find a solution because people are still going out. People are still going to party and still skipping social distance measures," Risueno explained.
Risueno says that these types of suits could be an alternative to social distancing measures, which would force clubs to only let a small number of people in, likely with an inflated ticket price.
"With our solution we are trying to make space available for everyone because our solution depends on your own footprint rather than distancing yourself," Risueno said.
You might not even need to buy one of these suits to go clubbing either, Risueno says that it could be possible to rent these from nightclubs, who would be responsible for sanitizing them between uses.
"We need to make sure that people want to wear it and they feel good about wearing it. So it's a little bit more of a fashion piece rather than something that looks like a medical device. The most exciting part is being able to have a deeper more emotional, physical connection with the people around you," Risueno said.
The patent for the suit is currently pending.
Reader Comments
Yeah...positive pressure biohazard suits seriously stir my manhood...lol...
To me, the above 'design' / invention (sic, sic) (henceforth "thing") seems to have absolutely no purpose, except perhaps as the ultimate exemplar/prototype of floccinaucinihilipilification.
So, let us try to here guess if the above idiocy will ever make money. In a logical world, weâd all say 'Hell no!"; but it seems we left Kansas back around March, and whoâs to say that Munchkins wouldnât love such a work of inanity?
But, we have no ability to analyze how the society of the crowd of idiot proles - the Munchkins - will react.
So, step up and place your bets. Hereâs mine:
Iâm going to guess that the only way this thing will make $ is by some socialistically subsidized âprogram', which of course, we will ultimately get to pay for. I do not expect it to ever have a chance on the free market - and thatâs where I fear I might be wrong.
But, then again, who the hell am I to guess what a society of Munchkins will do?
Your thoughts?
R.C.
R.C.
P.s., could you write your estimate on this inanity's future above?
THANKS!
I don't see that it has a portable air conditioning unit - but they exhaust heat!
RC
Adam & Eve. Died of coronavirus. Tiberius. Died of coronavirus. Hereward The Wake. Died of coronavirus. Anne Boleyn. Died of coronavirus. PDX. Died of chlamydia.
LOL.
1) PDX's PATENTED 'Split Crotch' invention; AND,
2) Hyper breeders (like rabbits) get chlamydia.?
R.C.
P.s., Speaking of rabbits...
You just THINK that's a 'floating rabbit' over there - - - >>>; you're wrong.
It's Hare Jordan.
R.C.
'I am not a number, I'm a free man' will be echoing in the distance as we're all carted off to the gulag for standing too close to our fellow humans and other 'illegal' activities.
What's also weird is that a lot of pundits who are against the lockdown and know the coronavirus thing is a load of old pony haven't been able to resist swallowing a small amount of fecal matter from the fall-out and are exhaling it all over the place, which is creating new variants of contaminant.
It really brings into focus that whole William Burroughs "language is a virus" schtick.
I LOVED that show growing up. It wasn't often on in Florida and I never was a TV watcher much, but remember the plastic ocean bubbles that would swallow him; the whole, 'let us take care of you and you'll be happy' BULLSHIT! that made a kid think about what freedom was, should and could be.
Q's: (Optional) How old are you?
Where'd you grow up? (Me, here.)
RC
Answer?
R.C.
P.s., Perhaps there was a RPB failure... Or . . . Perhaps I was chased down by a giant plastic ball and reprogrammed!
RC
I've got The Prisoner box-set somewhere.
Every time I come back to it, the first thing I notice is how good looking the women are who've probably been on a diet of bacon and eggs cooked in lard their entire lives.
I just KNEW you'd know!No, I looked it up.
That car is from when we used to make things in this country, before we decided to have a hypothetical economy and a hypothetical existence.
Same with The Prisoner, which, can you dig this, was made only to be seen once.
PDX Every time I come back to it, the first thing I notice is how good looking the women are who've probably been on a diet of bacon and eggs cooked in lard their entire lives.I've noticed that too, remember Gabrielle Drake? Something's happened to our food. There were hardly any fat chicks back then.
(Looking at SW pics just now, I couldn't help but see a (distant) similarity to a certain Great Lakes governor.)
RC
Florida (and to a far lesser extent, Cal) - it's usually all onshore winds (choppy) with no alternatives.
I GOTTA GO SURF ISLANDS AGAIN, ASAP!c.
RC
Comment: Now you can succumb to the virus hysteria, still go out clubbing "safely" - and look like you work at the Pentagon's most flamboyant bio-research lab in existence while doing it! Welcome to the New Stupid!