Okay, it turns out that I wasn’t dreaming when I found this last night. In Vitro Meat Habtitat. As in a living house made of live meat. With bones for structure and nourished by blood. That you live in. Yep, we’re not talking stacking pork chops as if they were bricks, or carving out a tauntaun to get a good night’s sleep. This is a Frankensteinian thing of living flesh and bone.
The man behind the meat is researcher Mitchell Joachim. Inhabitat.com reports,
From the boundary-pushing team of archi-visionaries who brought us the fabulous Fab Tree Hab comes a new (and somewhat disgusting) way to grow a structure — using animal flesh! The In Vitro Meat Habitat is a futuristic concept home composed of meat cells grown in a lab. We can’t imagine that these residences are going be replacing suburban tract homes anytime soon, but it sure is a provocative idea! The creator of the concept, Mitchell Joachim, is a futurist with a twist– he says he is actually developing the concept in a lab.
Maybe someone will code the DNA for one of these meat houses, so we can grow them where we need them. Probably not too practical, though, considering how much it costs to raise something like a cow. Imagine the cost of raising a house to maturity. And then there’s the life expectancy. How long will your house live? Repairs would be simple, since the house would be able to heal itself, but they’d take longer than a Saturday afternoon to complete.
At least, if your house burns down, you’d have enough meat to feed your family for a couple of days.
