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SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
10/20/09

In reply to Turn On the Quackie CD Player By Stroking Its Beak
Seems dangerous to me...I mean, touch a high rotation disk. And without mention that a poorly construct disk could shatter without any particular reason. #quackiecdplayer
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nutbastard
10/20/09

@SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!:

modern cd's don't shatter easily. in the early days the plastic was more brittle, but it's been pretty flexible for a decade or longer.
as for high rotation, cds spin at 500rpms. that's 6.25 fps at the edge. which isn't enough to do any real damage. also they're essentially torqueless, and would likely stop very quickly upon contact with the edge.
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(Starman) Starman
10/20/09

In reply to Turn On the Quackie CD Player By Stroking Its Beak

Im more worried about damaging the CD from contact with it at such a high speed rotation. o_o

And now for the spectacular…

Information: Now you will die.

Kill, kill, kill, kill… #quackiecdplayer
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Bos'un's Mate
10/19/09

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Wow, this would have been really cool back in 1993. #quackiecdplayer
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Xagest
10/19/09

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Wait, you can put music on CDs? #quackiecdplayer
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blash
10/19/09

@Xagest: What's a CD? #quackiecdplayer
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SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
10/20/09

@blash: Stop making me feel like an old fart. #quackiecdplayer
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reynwrap582
11/20/08

In reply to Cellphone Concept Has a Sweet Looking Glass
If it could actually work with present-day technology, it would be absolutely beautiful as a functional. However, it can't, which makes it not only a useless concept, but actually makes it pretty ugly. Face it, if your design concept relies on technology that doesn't exist, then the artistic concept better be ASTONISHING.

Take the iPhone for an example. It's a beautiful piece of design because it's also highly functional (and I aint no fanboy, my iphone is the first and only apple product I've ever bought). But if it looked as it did as a concept that didn't have working technology behind it, it'd actually be kind of ugly.
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reynwrap582
11/20/08

@reynwrap582: Seriously, it's almost 2009, where's my edit button?
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BeautifulAgony
11/20/08

@reynwrap582: Sorry, your robotic personal assistant accidentally left it in your flying car...
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jm1234567890
11/20/08

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One problem is that our world is not always a monochrome shade of colour.

That device would have very poor ligibility with a real background.
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bosskev
11/20/08

@jm1234567890: "That device would have very poor ligibility..."

I love irony.
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frigg
11/20/08

In reply to Cellphone Concept Has a Sweet Looking Glass
Any device that's advanced enough to work in a shard of glass would've also outgrown a 20th c. GUI. If you call your mom on a glassy cellphone from the future, I doubt it's going to have those numbers and icons.
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