Grow a Baby in your Living Room in a Pod - Artificial Womb Incubator

This Artificial Womb Concept Lets You Grow a Baby in Your House - At the recent Biodesign Challenge Summit, which saw 24 student teams from 22 universities around the world showcasing various scientific projects, a group of students from the ArtEZ school of Product Design showcased a concept crib called the Par-tu-ri-ent. An incubator that mimics the internal environment of the womb, the concept crib of the future is an example of emerging tech for artificial wombs.

Intended for a future where a couple can raise a surrogate fetus completely outside the womb — or as a solution for helping premature babies — the hyphenated concept product has not only heating and feeding tubes to give a baby the warmth and nutrients it needs but also a portable device can be attached to the parent and used to remotely rock the crib gently waiting at home. The Par-tu-ri-ent also comes with a microphone that can record voices, allowing the growing fetus to connect with its parents’ voices. Plus the dome-shaped glass case allows people to literally watch their baby grow in real time, making “delivery” as easy as removing the lid off a jar.

While it may seem like a device straight-out-of-sci-fi, one meant only for super soldiers and body-swapping billionaires, the Par-tu-ri-ent is not so strange a concept. As FastCo Design points out, IVF is a rather regular procedure now. And scientists have been testing out-of-womb incubation methods, most notably nursing a sheep from embryo to lamb in an amniotic fluid-filled bag that’s more or less an artificial womb. Such a device as the Par-tu-ri-ent could soon exist to help better nurture premature babies and even serve as an option for parents who need to have children via surrogacy.

Music: Incredible by Dhruva Aliman

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[devilnutz]

All fun and games until the machines use it as a battery.

[yusufa]

Yay more motherless babies! just what we always wanted!

[artxgx]

Awesome when can I skip pregnancy all together and birth my pod baby, death stranding style?

[inglcaraballo]

Science is so awesome and Great, this is going to help the world I know

[Healitnow]

I see this taking off having a publicized death of an infant and being forgotten. There are just too many parameters that the maternal body has to give in the formation of a baby. Too hard to duplicate in a machine. EG: How do you replace the emotional content of the mother with a machine, and if you do not does the baby grow up emotionally wrong?

[saradauchiha]

So I can put the fetus in daycare or just stay at home. I can leave the fetus at home alone but I cant leave a 4yr old? Can you file the fetus on current taxes?

[Michi]

This looks like a really positive move for humanity.🙄😣🤢

[Rickety]

This is a dystopian nightmare and must be destroyed at all costs

[kylelee]

ya'll out here trying to find a solution to a nonexisting problem..you could invest more time in finding a cure for cancer

[Inziagold]

The wisdom of life is Wawa's named Mama, every eye see's giving life. Many mouths deny.

[ingridduncan]

The souls of fetuses you cant mess with

[CatrinaGalloway]

Why can’t they come up with this machine wombs for abortion babies?

[nene-ov]

What if someone breaks into your home and ransack? Fires, natural disaster? Immoral and unethical.

[reecepierce]

I really want this after I find my true love

[vanuss]

Please how do I get this junk off my home screen?

[correlian]

Incredible. Now, why do we need women? Seriously of me is excited, part is horrified