iPod Oddities

A decade of weird sidelights of the world's most iconic gadget

Posted by  | Sunday, October 23, 2011


Encased in Carbonite

This functional iPod sculpture originated in 2007 when American artist Billy Chasen decided to make a real-life version of an exploded diagram.

Chasen carefully disassembled his iPod and set it in a block of acrylic resin, but he made sure to leave the iPod’s dock connector projecting through the bottom of the acrylic block.

Amazingly, the iPod still works. With the dock connector exposed, Chasen has full control over his media player even though he can never touch it directly.

(Photos: Billy Chasen)



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66 Comments For This Post

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    12 clicks to read the rest… it takes less effort to click than it does to type in all the characters required to complain

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