"Object Remix," is what industrial designer Bob Turek named his current project. His work challenges our perceptions, our expectations in fact, of an object's traditional purpose. Here, Turek builds a stereo amplifier within the body of a fiberglass female mannequin, creating what Turek describes as a "radically new user interface."
Reaction? Surprise, delight, or disgust, this female form definitely achieves Turek's purpose. It also assures that the source of sound becomes not only a perception of the ear, but of the eye. No more hidden speakers!
Turek's first member of the Object Remis series was a sound amplifier built into a light bulb socket in a desk lamp.
Personally, I'm looking forward to checking out future Object Remix designs!
Bob Turek via Boing Boing
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