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Uncanny Robot Hand Taps Fingers in Frustration

by Matthew Zuras on September 26, 2009 at 04:05 PM

For those of us too busy to even act impatient, artist Nik Ramage has created Fingers, a creepy robotic hand cast from his own that will rhythmically drum out frustration for you. A design joke more than a useful gadget, the resin Fingers makes a state of eternal edginess manifest, since they do little else than evoke the original disembodied hand, Thing from 'The Addams Family.'

Ramage designed Fingers for the London Design Festival in conjunction with kinetic object factory Laikingland, which also put out a mechanical applause machine last year, with such awesomeness that made Kanye West's head explode on his blog: "I THOUGHT OF SO MANY COMMENTS FOR THIS POST THAT IT HURT MY BRAIN AND I GAVE UP."

Well, if Fingers might have the similar ability to keep Kanye quiet, put us down for a dozen. [From: Dezeen, via Gizmodo]

Tags: london design festival, LondonDesignFestival, robot, robotic hand, RoboticHand, top, weird

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