What goes in must come out, or at least that is the case for the Cloaca (which we originally posted about last February), a machine that literally produces a good old Number Two. Designed by Belgium artist Wim Delvoye and first exhibited in 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the machine was fed twice a day and then the digestive process simulated resulting in this beauty:
After the machine is "fed," the food is ground up. Digestive juices (acid, etc.) are added and, after a spell, the machine pushes out a nice (somewhat solid) doodie. Want to see it in video?And for the more mobility inclined, the Mini Cloaca is way more portable, though it can only consume a small meal. Either way, we'd be remiss in our Taste Test if we ignored the ultimate food...errrr poop machine. [Cloaca via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Taste Test is our weeklong tribute to the leaps that occur when technology meets cuisine, spanning everything from the historic breakthroughs that made food tastier and safer to the Earl-Grey-friendly replicators we impatiently await in the future.
(@ http://gizmodo.com/5345499/turn-your-food-into-poop-with-a-cloaca-machine)