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It’s hard to say why fanciful clocks really get our juices flowin’ — after all, it’s not like we’re in any hurry to watch the best moments of our lives tick away — but Sander Mulder’s Continue Time is certainly amongst the classiest timepiece designs that we’ve seen. More than just a concept, this limited edition (just 20 were made) masterpiece is engineered to be wall mounted, boasting an articulating arm that pivots and swivels in order to display the current time to those with the appropriate vision. In the artist’s words: “on this clock, two out of the three pointers rotate around another pointer, instead of the central point on the clock face, as with traditional clocks.” It’s a thing of beauty, innit? Hop on past the break for a mesmerizing clip.

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Continue reading Video: Continue Time wall clock articulates in weird, wondrous ways

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Video: Continue Time wall clock articulates in weird, wondrous ways originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Actually, it’s just a sculpture with articulated joints, but by all the gods of steampunk, it looks glorious. The product of 60 hours’ labor and a selection of used transmission parts, disemboweled household appliances and 20-gauge steel, the mechanical cheetah stands 24-inches tall and 50-inches long. It looks like a stripped down robocat skeleton, and its joints can be maneuvered to mimic the movements of the real feline or to strike some downright awesome poses. Hit the read link for video of the mech cheetah simulating a run, as well as creator Andrew Chase’s thoughts on the project, or click past the break for more images — including a bonus snapshot of a mech giraffe.

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Continue reading Mechanical cheetah comin’ atcha!

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Mechanical cheetah comin’ atcha! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Drawing faces is hard; and as children suckled at the teat of MTV we posses neither the patience nor the discipline required to learn the skill. So imagine our surprise to discover the Self-Portrait Machine, a device that snaps your photo and then forces you to draw your own face by dragging your bound hands around until the portrait is complete. Jen Hui Liao’s project is the result of an observation that “our personal identities are represented by the products of the man-machine relationship.” So it’s like art and the intersection of philosophy… only it’s not — it’s just a robot too lazy to make the portrait itself. See the video after the break.

Continue reading Video: Self-Portrait Machine binds your hands then bends your will

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Video: Self-Portrait Machine binds your hands then bends your will originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Still swooning over this week’s drawn-on-an-iPhone New Yorker cover? Got some empty wall space to fill? Jorge Columbo, the New-York based artist who created the magazine cover with the Brushes app for iPhone, currently has four different works for sale at 20×200, an online art gallery specializing in limited-edition art you can afford. 

All four pieces–iSketch 084, iSketch 98, iSketch 104, and iSketch 140–were originally drawn on Columbo’s iPhone and depict various scenes in New York City. Printed on cotton rag paper in limited-edition runs, the works are available in three different sizes at three different prices: 8″x10″ for $20, 11″x14″ for $50, and 16″x20″ for $200.

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Well, what do you know? It looks like our favorite fingerpainter is really making a name for himself with his handset artwork. Like his other New York City-scapes, Jorge Colombo’s cover for the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker was composed entirely in the Brushes iPhone app. And it looks like the artist’s switch to a digital format is no gimmick — he tells The New York Times that the device allows him to work “without having to carry all my pens and brushes and notepads with me.” And he can work in anonymity — to complete the cover he spent about an hour on 42nd Street, with no interruptions (try doing that with a canvas, an easel, and a full compliment of art supplies). Mr. Colombo, if you’re out there: we’d like to add you to our Mafia Wars family. Drop us an email.

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iPhone-generated artwork featured on cover of The New Yorker originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 May 2009 10:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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