Comments on: Street Use

Street Use

econous — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:04:42 -0800

Street Use: Somewhere on a continuum shared with Umdenken and Chindogu we find Kevin Kelly's Street Use.

By: econous

econous — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:12:01 -0800

This picture of a device for the heating of water for hot beverages, leaves me in fear.

By: ubiquity

ubiquity — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:25:57 -0800

I actually own, and have occasionally used, spring-loaded chopsticks, though not the kind modelled here. BTW, look at the site icon. Good thing his middle name wasn't Keith.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:04:08 -0800

That rocked! Especially all the Russian stuff towards the bottom of the page.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:55:37 -0800

Yeah, the Russian gear was fantastic - the shuttlecock is incredibly beautiful.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:07:55 -0800

That was fun.

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:11:43 -0800

He missed this bottle opener made of a strip of steel and some gold foil and this bucket-sized still.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:21:00 -0800

[this is good]

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:28:24 -0800

Neat. See also Prisoner's Inventions.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:01:12 -0800

Not only is the Russian stuff great, but if you click on the audio icon on each page you get a page with a transcript of someone (often the creator) talking about the object and how it came to be made (e.g., here's the page for the hangers), and if you click on the icon on that page you hear the voice itself (RealAudio, I'm afraid). What fun! Thanks for the post.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:15:31 -0800

I adore this stuff, and have followed street use since I saw a link to X-Ray Sound Recordings - people in soviet states pirating western records using old x-ray film. It saddens me that there is so little of this kind of ingenuity in modern life in the west. Do check out the archives (linked on the left side).

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:21:41 -0800

cool.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:33:34 -0800

The original source is in Chinese, so I don't know too much about this homebuilt submarine, other than it was built by a Chinese farmer. On inspection, I doubt it will even submerge; it is probably simply a boat with submarine decoration. I hope I am wrong. Heh.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:00:05 -0800

I love this stuff. It's cyberpunk (The street finds its own use for technology), but mostly without the cyber. Or the punk.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:52:48 -0800

The-uh Spacingi-ngr Guild-ildh favors-orss thissh project-grub.