What experience do you desire to have with your computer hardware? Do you want a relationship at all, or do you wish it would dissappear? How does the way your computer looks, acts, sounds (whirrrr) making you feel? Affect what you want to do with it? What is the emotional connection between physical hardware and the person using it for something? Case mods have been an ongoing thing for hardware geeks for awhile, but it’s fun to see some serious right-turns from micro-perforated brushed aluminum towards playfulness and personalization, as scary as this is!
Gadget Lab @ Wired News Reports >> Yes, ladies and gentlemen. That is a computer inside a stuffed beaver.
“An electric knife turned out to be the best thing to use for carving,” wrote creator Kasey McMahon. “Carving it took days and days, even with the electric knife. I was so very tired of carving.”
Welcome to the world of compubeaver, where nature, technology and science converge!
This photo journey of how she created it is great. I liked her quote about nature becoming so alien too:
About the beaver: I am interested in the way we interact with nature. As we become increasingly reliant on technology, we become disconnected from our natural environment. Nature then is a spectacle (i.e. holy crap, that’s a beaver!), an outing, a thing that is nonexistent in our daily lives.
There is also something intrinsically funny about putting a computer in a beaver. In fact, I find it difficult to think of a more ridiculous case housing for an office machine. All innuendos aside, what better creature to house the busiest of machines – the machine that has sped up our lives and made us captive to a constant flow of information.
The beaver is the first case mod I’ve done. Many thanks to all those who helped. Next, I would like to make a car out of a giant squid.
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