Controllers + home appliances collection

[lordnacho]

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

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.

[SavannahLion]

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!

[lordnacho]

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. 

[Vigo]

  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.

[lordnacho]

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

[Blanka]

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

[mgb]

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

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