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the coolest thing you have ever seen in your entire life. period.

DateTuesday, May 11, 2010 at 05:54PM

OK, bold headline. But holy shit balls this is awesome. Meet “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb Larsen”.

What is it you ask? A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter by Caleb Larsen is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay. Here is the ebay auction, the current bid is $4,250. Yep.

Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.

Rad, right? If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

I’m seriously going to be thinking about how awesome this is all day. And now you are too.
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damn, thats smart, but there must be a ceiling as to how high people are gonna bid on it... Why couldn't this be my idea! haha...
February 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterWally
Yeah, that really isn't the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. In fact it's a box. And a pointless one at that.
February 22, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLoves To Spooge
It's art you ass. Techno art.
March 2, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterspooge on your face
This reminds me of a swedish card game called Svarte Petter (Black Pete?). You play with all cards except jack of clubs. Jack of spades is Svarte Petter and when the game is over, the person holding this card looses. The box is black, and when the "game" is over, the one holding it, will be a looser...
March 3, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMe

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