The very idea that a baby body requires different fluids than a full-grown corpse somehow arouses my fancy. The concepts of death and infancy are heavy on my mind these days, as my generation comes into power, as my father shakes his massive head and warns that gas and food prices will never go down again, that this is what he was warning us about since the fifties.

I think he prays that this isn’t the End of History. At some point, he says (or I remember him saying, admittedly different things), innovation and notable incidents will cease to occur or we will become inured to them, and history will stop. There will no longer be anything worth recording. Humanity will subside into limbo.

In this current atmosphere of fear where every day people “in the know” are gnashing their teeth, pulling their hair, and babbling in tongues about mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps one may lose sight of the real danger affecting the world today. Robots.

The impending robot revolution continues to be the number one threat to the continuation of the human race and while our politicians are busy pointing fingers at one another in easily digestible sound-bites, some of us refuse to be distracted. Some, like artist Molly Porkshanks, are all too aware of the danger posed by the inscrutable mechanoid. Now she has produced terrifying evidence that, no longer content with self awareness, they have begun to reproduce in a twisted approximation of the human life-cycle, as evidenced by this clockwork fetus.

Should this become commonplace we may truly be witnessing the end. It is imperative that we create measures to combat this threat whether it be stronger coat hangers or taller, harder stairs. Something must be done, or government bailouts will be the least of our concerns. Mark my words.

Clockwork Fetus In Chamber by porkshanks [deviantART] : Dark Roasted Blend

Stephanie Metz creates amazing sculptures from felted wool including a series of Teddy Bear skulls — two of which are featured above — and a series detailing the fetal development of the ursine dolls.

Stephanie Metz [Artist’s Site] : DIGITAL DJ

Because nothing says “fun” like the unborn, Cube Works is presenting a number of fetus themed oddities like the candy dispenser and whistle pictured above, and while it is certainly odd to offer someone candy vomited out of the mouth of a plastic fetus it is another thing entirely to place one’s mouth on the posterior of a plastic fetus and exhale violently, causing the prenatal visage to open its mouth and emit a piercing scream.

Fetus themed chotchke [Cube Works] : Inventor Spot