MetaFilter posts tagged with objects

Sculptor Nemo Gould makes robots out of found objects

lee — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:04:37 -0800

Sculptor Nemo Gould makes robots out of found objects.

It's a poltergoost!

asok — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:42:16 -0800

Sucked in! MRI scanners are hungry for any metal objects in the nearby vicinity, with hilarious and sometimes tragic results. The roughly 10,000 scanners in the United States are found not just in hospitals, but in storefront clinics and even mounted on trucks, making rounds of small hospitals or parking at malls to do scans for a fee.

What the hell is this???

grumblebee — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:47:35 -0800

Will somebody please please PLEASE tell me what this is ?

acculicorn: to accumulate in corners

Tufa — Fri, 27 May 2005 23:24:32 -0800

The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects. By the Collier taxonomy, this bugger, which I just pulled from my heel, would be an onlipart shosolattach tanpointisharpanilik. [via]

Bootleg Objects

aeiou — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:13:40 -0800

Bootleg Objects, the site of two artists in Germany, have done some really amazing work retrofitting popular technology to serve a new and/or unintended purpose -- just because they can. It's quite beautiful design -- who knows of other examples?

A late 19th century chastity belt for a Welsh goat?

taz — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:00:55 -0800

What is that thing?

thirteen — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:53:46 -0800

Somewhere between Myst and an inventory. . Matt McClintock invites you to enter his home and checkout all his neat stuff. Want to see what is in his medicine cabinet? Go ahead. What is in the drawer? Take a look. Perfect for anyone who has ever walked down the street and wondered what the insides of their neighbors houses look like. Beautiful navigation, and oddly compelling content.