The Museum of Lost Interactions
The Richophone, the Prat Sampler, the Acoustograph, the Social Communicator, the Case Communicator, the Chordmaster, the Zenith Radio Hat, the Pester, the Video Case: Nine examples of dead media that never lived, exhibited in the Museum of Lost Interactions at the University of Dundee.
In 1925, the Acoustograph [shown at right] was a music downloading device well ahead of its time. The upper class city families that owned these devices would request a musical composition with the Morse key, down telegraph wire.
Each exhibit is accompanied by a period film of the device in action.
[Acknowledgments to Isaac Epp]
February 26th, 2007 at 3:43 am
I don’t get it, they’re all fakes, er… I mean design projects.
March 29th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
In response to Andy K:
Dear Sir,
The idea here is: the improbablity of “fake” designs = the probability of a most witty and humorous site = real, literate FUN.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Possibly if more research had been done to how the base technology of the fictitious designs had been studied, perhaps they could have been more believable. I personally own several cylinder phonographs and early record players and several early telephones and one glance at the machines they were protraying and the obviousness of the depiction of the fake devices was dissappointing. If this is for a university program, I reccommend study, study, study!!! The real devices thes fakes are based on are more interesting and more convoluted than the fictitious depictions.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:02 am
ugh, sorry about my spelling mistakes!
November 18th, 2007 at 3:02 am
ugh, sorry about my spelling mistakes!