Open Reel Ensemble, a Japanese experimental music group, plays reel-to-reel tape recorders as musical instruments. Spectacular example of artistic technological misuse.
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Open Reel Ensemble, a Japanese experimental music group, plays reel-to-reel tape recorders as musical instruments. Spectacular example of artistic technological misuse.
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Rebecca Xun and Lucia Camacho built the Vape-o-Gotchi, a vape device that dies if you stop puffing.
There’s a big trend of parental locking yourself,” Camacho added. “I’m locked out of certain apps behind a password that Rebecca knows, so I don’t scroll Instagram too much. It would be cool if you could have that for nicotine.” But then, explained Xun, Camacho “found this Stupid Hackathon. And we were like, it’d be kind of funnier to be evil.” And with that, their “evil-mode” Vape-o-Gotchi, which instead rewards users for vaping, was born.

In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create the worst volume control interface in the world. Enjoy this amazing list compiled by user 0xDesigner on Twitter.
Probably the best thing you’ll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results
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— 0xDesigner (@0xDesigner) April 2, 2023