Royal College of Art graduate Jun Kamei has built a garment that functions like gills, which could allow humans to survive when sea levels rise up and submerge the earth.
Called Amphibio, the two-part 3D-printed accessory consists of a gill and a respiratory mask. It is designed to allow humans to completely breathe underwater.
Kamei has built a working prototype of Amphibio. Although it currently doesn’t produce enough oxygen to sustain human breathing, it is able to successfully extract oxygen from water, and release carbon dioxide back in – meaning it has the potential to be used for breathing.
The RCA graduate imagines it becoming an essential part of living in the future, when the ocean rises up and claims the majority of the earth’s land, and humans are forced to spend much of their lives in the water.
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