Art Lebedev’s Matryoshkus Experiment With Design
By Ryan Nill
The Art Lebedev Studio (of Optimus Keyboard fame) once again shows us its unique take on design with this set of Babushka dolls. Called Matryoshkus, these linden-wood Russian nesting dolls remind us of the relationship between all the little bits that make up our digital age: byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte figures all nestle into one another, with the indivisible bit in the middle. Sure, they don’t actually do anything at all. But they look pretty cool. And unlike their fabled keyboard, we actually believe these could become available as promised: September 1, 2007 for about 34$.
Couple more pictures and links after the jump.
[ Art Lebedev ] VIA [ engadget ]
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So cool, I had to publish it too. Thanks OhGizmo!
Posted 9:08 pm on August 9th, 2007Where can I buy one of these!
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Posted 1:19 pm on August 11th, 2007http://www.HowToGetFreeWiiPoints.com
Very awesome dolls!
Posted 1:21 pm on August 11th, 2007Pity theres nothing about the Peta byte?
Those are plain not pretty, and no where close to scale. DUMB
Posted 1:30 pm on August 11th, 2007The change in volume of each doll is not proportional to the change in volume in the volume they represent. That is, they are not to scale. But then again the dolls would be unreasonably large if the next bigger one was 1024x larger than the previous one.
Posted 1:39 pm on August 11th, 2007Retarded. they should be growing 1000 times each step
Posted 1:41 pm on August 11th, 2007With no faces, they’re just phallic. They could’ve dressed it up a bit.
Posted 2:07 pm on August 11th, 2007if they grew 1000 times … we’d never be able to fit it anywhere …
Posted 2:35 pm on August 11th, 2007let alone put in on our desks …
hehe …
Interesting concept, too bad they look like Apple made them.
Posted 5:33 pm on August 11th, 2007This is lame beacuse only 1 bit fits in a byte.
Posted 5:35 pm on August 11th, 2007This is a lame, wanna be geek thing….. total crap
Posted 5:43 pm on August 11th, 2007laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
Posted 7:30 pm on August 11th, 2007No nybble?!
Posted 8:40 pm on August 11th, 2007they may increase size in the logarithmic scale
Posted 10:02 am on August 12th, 2007