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16:16 August 11, 2011

Dutch artist Olaf Mooij's 'braincar' records images of its travels, then projects them on ...

Dutch artist Olaf Mooij's 'braincar' records images of its travels, then projects them on the inside of its translucent brain (Photo: Ge Hirdes)

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Have you ever questioned what it would be like if a car "could experience with a kind of consciousness its own passage through spacetime"? Well, Rotterdam artist Olaf Mooij has. It drove him to create "braincar," which is ... well, it's a car with a brain on the back. By day, the car captures stills and videos of its travels down the roads. By night, it remixes those images, then projects them on the inside of its translucent brain.

Mooij is known for his works involving automobiles, "that express the nearly psychological connection between drivers and their cars, or that convert vehicles into a kind of mobile sculpture architecture." Some of his other pieces have included the deafening-looking DJ Mobile, cars with hair on top, cars that have been skinned, and an approximation of what a car embryo might look like.

Here's a look at braincar, as it appears to dream about what it's seen:

Source: Designboom

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Ben Coxworth
Ben Coxworth
An experienced freelance writer, videographer and television producer, Ben's interest in all forms of innovation is particularly fanatical when it comes to human-powered transportation, film-making gear, environmentally-friendly technologies and anything that's designed to go underwater. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, where he spends a lot of time going over the handlebars of his mountain bike, hanging out in off-leash parks, and wishing the Pacific Ocean wasn't so far away.

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What can I say? erm, what is there to say?

comment Terry Penrose - August 16, 2011 @ 08:14 am PDT
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