Saturday, December 08, 2007
THE TURK 2
Many of you will be rightly suspicious that this is just another transparent attempt to use the plural form of the word automaton again. So here is a nice gallery of antique automata - the more anthropomorphous ones are both fascinating and creepy in equal measure, somewhat like a ventriloquist's dummy.
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In a somewhat related sense, I found the tale of this archaic kumquat rotation optimizer utterly captivating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Tamagotchi gone over the top. The is so cute it's scary. I think i want one.
http://www.pleoworld.com/
you may want to pay a visit to Michael Start and his family if you're wandering down this route, he is a lovely chap, I curated a couple of things with him at the Horse Hospital
http://www.automatomania.co.uk/
@ea-m
don't those mournful cries just break your heart?
@jim
thanks for great link, looks amazing, must visit them
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