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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: lordnacho on January 27, 2012, 01:21:12 pm

Title: Controllers + home appliances collection
Post by: lordnacho on January 27, 2012, 01:21:12 pm

If not anything else, it's a good photo collection.

http://www.rogeribars.com/ (http://www.rogeribars.com/)
Snippet from his site:
In 2002, Roger Ibars started to build "Hard-wired devices", a collection of vintage electronic devices -alarm clocks and game controllers- in which two cultures of interface blend: the computer gaming culture and the home appliance culture. The Hard-wired devices collection is growing year after year, they have been acquired by private collectors, sold on eBay and displayed for sale in London's first Interaction design retail shop, the Digital Well Being Labs.

Title: Re: Controllers + home appliances collection
Post by: SavannahLion on January 30, 2012, 12:32:16 pm

Um.... I must be missing something. He buys a Japanese made travel clock (same two or thee models apparently) hacks up controllers (I'll refrain my opinion on this) to interface to said clocks then sells them on eBay and at some art studio thingie in London?

This guy strikes me as reasonably clueless about controllers (analog put in quotes?), calls a clock an appliance (I suppose technically it is) but is smart enough to manage to dupe oodles of people in buying his um..... art.....

Clearly I'm in the wrong business. Quick! Find me an oven and a Jaguar controller!

Title: Re: Controllers + home appliances collection
Post by: lordnacho on January 30, 2012, 12:38:18 pm

Sounds about right.  That's "art" for you.  I was at some exhibit at the Guggenheim(dragged there), there was a wall of dead flies.  Smelled like butt. 

Title: Re: Controllers + home appliances collection
Post by: Vigo on January 30, 2012, 01:10:52 pm

 :cry: Some of my favorite classic home joysticks reduced to....clock buttons....

Even while some of those joysticks kinda blew, there is no reason to ever degrade a Wico Command Control to clock buttons. (Row 2, Column 5 & 6) those joysticks were the tops.

Title: Re: Controllers + home appliances collection
Post by: lordnacho on January 30, 2012, 02:10:05 pm

Never knew the "Mother Ship" existed.  Row 5 column 5

Title: Re: Controllers + home appliances collection
Post by: Blanka on January 30, 2012, 02:34:58 pm

I only would take him serious, if one of the devices he put on a controllor was his wife  :laugh:

Title: Re: Controllers + home appliances collection
Post by: mgb on January 30, 2012, 06:09:16 pm

The guys gotta be pretty wacked. They sell travel alarm clocks with their own built in buttons, you know  ;D

Still I think the power glove would be cool with the clock built on it.