Pedal Pusher: Montreal-Berlin artist Michel de Broin creates awesome surreal objects like the Shared Propulsion Car, a pedal-powered malaise-era Buick that, in a particularly memorable YouTube video, was impounded about a block away from a gallery by Toronto police for not having licence plates. His other work ain’t bad neither—Keep on Smoking is a bicycle that uses the rider’s kinetic energy to pollute with a smoke machine and Silent Screaming puts a fire alarm inside a vacuum, so you can’t hear it. Get your brain in gear at micheldebroin.org.
Aspirational: The Acer Aspire is a tiny, cheap Linux-powered laptop that can be customized to do a lot of things you wouldn’t expect from a computer that costs less than this semester’s textbooks. Learn how to do things like adding a touchscreen or running Mac OS or cramming a 1.8” hard drive into it or putting in Bluetooth and a TV Tuner and enough RAM to make it run fast enough to be worth it at www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/09/27/30-cool-acer-aspire-one-hacks/.
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