Rumble strips repurposed to create music. Exaptation in action!
Related: The exaptation of obsolete computer equipment. Listen to your scanner perform Vivaldi’s “Spring”, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, or Beethoven’s “Für Elise”. Or listen to your floppy drive perform The Imperial March. What makes an instrument?
[via Kim Komando, thanks, Dad!]
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