TV remote art experiment mixes water & electricity
Bizarre ways to control familiar items always make me tingle in my otherwise-forgotten parts, so I was illicitly delighted to see Philippe Kindelis' simply-titled "TV Remote Control". It's a title that does it no justice, as power, volume and channel changing are all adjusted through moving different metal cables in volumes of water.
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Basically, as you move the metal sections within the water the conduction of electricity through it changes; that's mapped into functions such as increasing or decreasing volume. The whole thing is part of a project of Philippe's called "Order & Chaos" in which he defies the traditional taboo of not mixing electricity and water.
It also looks like it does a damn good job of confusing a small child.
TV Remote Control [via MAKE]