When X-Rays And Gaming Collide
Picture the scene, it's a rainy afternoon, you've completed every game you own, twice, and the only thing you have left to play with is an x-ray machine. What do you do? If you said 'irradiate the dog', you'd be wrong.
"As I looked down on the city, the streets seemed to stretch and twist, like the lines on a circuit board..." Wait, that should be the other way round, damn.
Ignoring the appalling hard-boiled fiction for a second, or longer if possible, a Dutch gamer has combined the disciplines of gaming and, uh, x-raying things in a fascinating art project.
Reintji, as he is known on Flickr, took an impressive collection of consoles, ranging from the retro Atari 2600 to the very current PS3, as well as a whole host of controllers and cartridges and subjected them to the penetrating rays of the upper end of the electro-magnetic spectrum.
The images are eerily compelling, reminiscent of city maps viewed through thermal imaging, and shows just how complex consoles actually are. You can view the entire gallery here [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravanderende/sets/72157594368940565/].
By the way, the round thing in the gallery is a coconut, just in case you were wondering. Don't be afraid, it can't hurt you.
Source: Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5236578/x+ray-console-quiz]
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Picture the scene, it's a rainy afternoon, you've completed every game you own, twice, and the only thing you have left to play with is an x-ray machine. What do you do? If you said 'irradiate the dog', you'd be wrong.
"As I looked down on the city, the streets seemed to stretch and twist, like the lines on a circuit board..." Wait, that should be the other way round, damn.
Ignoring the appalling hard-boiled fiction for a second, or longer if possible, a Dutch gamer has combined the disciplines of gaming and, uh, x-raying things in a fascinating art project.
Reintji, as he is known on Flickr, took an impressive collection of consoles, ranging from the retro Atari 2600 to the very current PS3, as well as a whole host of controllers and cartridges and subjected them to the penetrating rays of the upper end of the electro-magnetic spectrum.
The images are eerily compelling, reminiscent of city maps viewed through thermal imaging, and shows just how complex consoles actually are. You can view the entire gallery here [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravanderende/sets/72157594368940565/].
By the way, the round thing in the gallery is a coconut, just in case you were wondering. Don't be afraid, it can't hurt you.
Source: Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5236578/x+ray-console-quiz]
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