Comments on: Ads that depict the human body as a machine

By: Jason Baker

Jason Baker — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:55:00 +0000

Yeah, but unless you get the right wireless carrier, your 1080p vision will be constantly…

Bufferin®

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:03:00 +0000

My mom had a set of How and Why books (not the same as How and Why Wonder Books; these were older, clothbound books, like a children’s encyclopedia). They had this same concept, something like “The Body Machine” or “The Man Machine.” Lungs = aerating room, stomach = mixing room etc.

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:31:00 +0000

I was just about to post that. Good stuff.

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:09:00 +0000

Not an ad, but…
http://calvinandhobbes-daily.tumblr.com/post/26245509747/june-30-1986-june-30-1987-june-30-1988-june
(6th strip down, June 30,1991)

(edit: previous link was flaky)

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:02:00 +0000

I saw those and was so disturbed by the tagline at the end – it doesn’t upgrade your phone, it upgrades YOU. Because I am nothing without a smartphone, I guess.

By: Conan Librarian

Conan Librarian — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:09:00 +0000

or tween girl fanfiction stories.

By: Alyx McCown

Alyx McCown — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:12:00 +0000

does this explain buffout? http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Buffout_(Fallout_3)

By: Schizno

Schizno — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:05:00 +0000

Wow, LiveJournal still used for something not related to Russia.

By: jerwin

jerwin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:57:00 +0000

Some of the Android ads (Droid DNA) promise to “upgrade” the user into a cyborg. It promises that your vision will be 1080p, so you can see the pixels, and your hearing will have something called Beats Audio, so you can autotune the world. It’s disturbing to think about, but hulu has put it into heavy rotation.

By: ldobe

ldobe — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:52:00 +0000

Brain as mission control / steering committee is also an often hilarious trope.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:39:00 +0000

These were before my time . . . but body-as-machine were regularly spoofed in MAD Magazine, and because I read the reprint books I recogize this source material!

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:58:00 +0000

yep, never improved upon Fritz Kahn:
http://www.fritz-kahn.com/gallery.php?site=images&lang=en …oder…
http://socks-studio.com/2012/08/24/fritz-kahn-human-body-as-an-industrialized-world/
‘for the body is but an industrial effort of a different scale’