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July 16, 2005

Experience the Experience: Catapulting Wireless Devices

As BoingBoing noted, the Australian art/prank collective Monochrom held their "Experience the Experience of Catapulting Wireless Devices" demo today. I went down to check it out and it was kinda cool. There's something thrilling about putting your "valuable" technology in harms way for a momentary thrill/fear of loss.

Cell phones are notorious for their ability to recover from being dropped, so most seemed fine, even after being flunk 40-50 feet. Some snapped open, but they were easily put back together.

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actually it's austrian, not austrALian. ;)

Opps! Fixed! :)

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