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Maurice Mbikayi’s Keyboard Anatomy

Range — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:38:15 +0000

Check out these freaky keyboard creations by Maurice Mbikayi. He uses the keyboards to represent various parts of the human form, but I personally like the look of the keyboard skulls the best.

Maurice was born in Kinshasa, Congo, and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. His art frequently is about the influence of technology (both positive and negative) on the world, and in Africa in particular. These works definitely make a statement on how prevalently we use computers in our society.

Putting these together must have taken quite some time, and geeks everywhere will appreciate them. Maybe some of you will even try to make your own keyboard skulls.

[via Acidolatte]

Captcha Business Cards Ask: Are You Human?

Technabob — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:35:48 +0000

You know those annoying (but necessary) anti-robo-spam CAPTCHA boxes you have to deal with when filling out forms on the web? Here’s a clever idea for some eye-catching business cards based on CAPTCHA technology.

Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl created these cards by uploading the individual images to MOO Cards, who specializes in making tiny business cards, each with a different image. While the cards ask the question “Are you human?”, I’m not quite sure what would happen if you handed one of these to a robot. Would it self-destruct? That would be cool.

Did you know CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”? I always thought it meant “Cats Acting Cool Taste Chocolate Ham Animals”. Mnemonics, your dear, dear friend.

[via F.A.T., Josh Spear and Micah Spear]

Evolution of Man T-Shirt is Stuck in the 80s

Technabob — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:44:44 +0000

If you think that mankind continues to evolve, perhaps you’re wrong. According to this clever video game T-shirt, we all stopped evolving somewhere back in the mid-1980s, parked in front of a Missile Command cabinet.

Depicting the gradual metamophosis from ape to human to arcade addict, this shirt doesn’t take into account the gradual decline from the upright position of Homo Erectus in the arcade to today’s Homo Potatus parked on the couch in front of the Xbox 360.

Regardless of its lack of anthropological accuracy, the shirt makes for a nice retro-chic fashion statement, right down to the familiar bitmapped “INSERT COIN” type. The Evolution of Man T-shirt is available from GameAsylum for $19.88.

[via Fashionably Geek]