Interactive Periodic Table of Swearing

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By Olivia Solon October 20, 2011 | 1:44 pm | Categories: Art, Design and Fashion

Pressing buttons on the Periodic Table of Swearing causes a robotic voice to speak the chosen swear words aloud.
Photo: Modern Toss/Clay


Artistic duo Modern Toss (aka Jon Link and Mick Bunnage) have turned their illustrated Periodic Table of Swearing into a physical, interactive machine.

Modern Toss teamed up with design studio Clay to build the device, which wouldn’t look entirely out of place in a 1970s power station. That is, if the power station was designed by a Tourettes sufferer — possibly Mr. Tourettes, one of Modern Toss’ popular characters.

The machine features more than 100 brightly colored fruit machine buttons which, when pressed, unleash creatively foul language — perfect for the lazy or sore-voiced hater. Most of the swears are not for delicate ears, but a few of the tamer ones include: bollocks to that (Btt); silly bastard (Sb) and stupid old wanker (Sow). You can check out the video below to see some of the stronger ones.

In addition to 100 buttons, the machine comprises more than 300 feet of cabling, laser-cut MDF and more than 300 soldered joints.

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http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/10/periodic-table-of-swearing/

[PETRUS]

1. Ha!

[amyrose2712]

2. BOLLOCKS! nt

[Sanity Claws]

3. Perfect Christmas Gift!

[chollybocker]

4. George Carlin would be mightily impressed by this.

:thumbsup:

[999998th word]

5. Want