HAL was "built to suffer," and he expresses every bit of that suffering in excruciating detail. He's full of sensors that help him show a variety of emotions and responses. He bleeds, he cries for his mom, he urinates, and of course, he goes into anaphylactic shock. Yes, all of the major emotions, from bleeding to urination. HAL is truly representative of the full human experience.

HAL can have his pulse, blood sugar, blood oxygen, and carbon dioxide levels measured, his pupils can be dilated, and when he's left alone, he can presumably reposition himself in subtle yet deeply unsettling ways.

Gaumard ScientificFinally, a doll that screams and bleeds without having to navigate the "Paranormal" section of eBay.

Medical trainees who previously complained about practice situations not being realistic enough now struggle to handle the eerie realism that HAL offers. This urinating homunculus has even brought participants to tears when the stress level was cranked up enough. Which is convenient, because HAL is clearly powered by the sound of human weeping.

Gaumard ScientificA sound which he also emits, if you didn't have the spine to click on that video up there.

Gaumard has also designed a "scarily realistic" pregnant robot that gives birth, and a little preemie HAL that simulates a baby born at 30 weeks.

Gaumard ScientificWe assume this is to study the physiological effect on onlookers whose blood runs cold.

We never thought that the breathing of a newborn could send chills down our spine, but hey, you learn something new every day. Even if you would give anything -- anything in this world -- to unlearn it.

Gaumard ScientificIt's also possible this is an extremely roundabout form of birth control. It's certainly curbing our urge to reproduce.

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The main drawback of the old method was that it was next to impossible to pose the animals after treatment, because they were left with the consistency of "mushy, spoiled lettuce." So someone had the bright idea of plopping them inside gelatin, like something you'd find on the dessert table at the world's least successful buffet. Once the gelatin congeals around the corpse, the specimens (like the shrew in the image above) glow visibly (and blasphemously) under a blue light.

Matt Girard, Leo SmithIt also makes every animal look like a Final Fantasy boss.

What's the point of all this? Well, it's not to develop new practical effects for the sequel to Harbinger Down -- it's to reveal the tiny structural details that get scientists all hot and bothered. As one museum curator put it, "That may not sound like too big a deal, but when you're trying to figure out how one group of fishes is related to another, those little gaps end up being a lot of the characters."

Leo Smith, ASIHFor example, now we know that this fish belongs in the "Kill it with holy water before it comes for our children" genus.

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It's controlled through magnetic manipulation, and is currently being tested on animals. But the goal is to develop a biodegradable version and advance to human trials, so look forward to the day when your doctor prescribes the ingestion of a medical-grade centipede.

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Oh, and it can even improve by listening to sounds and attempting to mimic what it hears, because obviously, this is the sort of device that we should imbue with learning capabilities. How else will it learn to hate us effectively?

E. Reid Ross has a couple books, Nature is the Worst: 500 reasons you'll never want to go outside again and Canadabis: The Canadian Weed Reader, both available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Check out all of Eamon Lahiri's work here. For enquiries about work or his favorite flavor of ice-cream, get in touch at eamon.lahiri@gmail.com.

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