Christopher Lock’s Modern Fossils portray the gadgets of yesteryear as extinct, long-lost creatures, fossilized to pique the curiosity of future generations. Cast in concrete, the specimens rang from the cassette tape (Latin name Asportatio acroamatis) to the guts of an iPod (Egosiliqua malusymphonicus) — my favorite because it actually looks a little like a real fossil.
I should probably agree with Lock’s spewing treatise on “runaway consumerism and wastefulness at the high end of the food chain” but I am, as a gadget blogger, part of the problem. There is actually a rather interesting point underneath this otherwise flip (if fun) project: What will happen to old gadgets in the future? These things are disposable, and as such there won’t be many of them around in even a few years time. I picked a VHS tape out of a street trashcan the other day and waved it at my friends. They laughed at it.
So, instead of buying Lock’s $75 iPod cast, just hold onto your own first gen iPod. Lord knows it’s heavy enough to hold down a stack of paper in the stiffest of breezes.
Product page [Heartless Machine. Thanks, Dylan!]
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