HUMAN OF TOMORROW (2026)

The future we were promised as children hasn’t exactly panned out the way we’d hoped. Back then, nothing captured the imagination quite like flying cars and hologram watches, but instead we ended up with constant surveillance and subscription-based services. Human of Tomorrow uses naïve, wishful creativity to fulfill silly or pointless tasks. 

It’s a supersuit full of “future tech” that’s made of junk from the back of the closet—a jetpack built from salon hairdryers, a View-Master bolted to orthodontic headgear and billed as VR goggles, an elbow grease extractor of medical fittings and bicycle parts, a portable microwave with a turntable platter and exercise equipment, a cooling fanny pack complete with working fans, and battery charging boots that groan when you walk—each piece more ridiculous than the one preceding it.

Playful and whimsical, as weird as they are stupid, these overly engineered forms are a departure from the logical sterility of minimalist design trends. There’s a sort of magic to be found in wearing a colander on your head and launching into space in a little red wagon.