Musical Tesla coil plays Super Mario Brothers theme

After the robotic giraffe, a Mac running XP and this guy's second Zune tattoo, you probably thought there was nothing left to see, but then along comes a giant Tesla coil that creates a "resonant frequency" and plays the SMB music to a crowd of onlookers. No word on if it knows "Signs" or not. Check the video after the break.

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[Matt @ Jun 21st 2007 10:12AM]

That's pretty sweet!

[Yaktastic @ Jun 21st 2007 10:13AM]

That's amazing

[fred @ Jun 21st 2007 10:16AM]

Signs....Tesla...LMAO

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jun 21st 2007 10:23AM]

Musica Electronica!

[JeffNLA @ Jun 21st 2007 10:25AM]

It sings the body electric

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jun 21st 2007 10:27AM]

http://www.hauntedfrog.com/gt/movies/2007/duckon/SingingTeslaShow.html

[Tavis Veighey @ Jun 21st 2007 12:27PM]

LOL Way to read the notice at the bottom there. Just kill his hosting service again, and make him have to pay MORE MONEY to keep it up!

[luke @ Jun 21st 2007 11:05AM]

when the vid ends, theres links to better ones using two coils done by the geek group!

[Taylor @ Jun 21st 2007 11:29AM]

What's the song at the end? Sounds like an Ozma song...

[Anonymoose @ Jun 21st 2007 1:31PM]

Hey, that last song is the Tetris theme from Game Boy. It is an old Russian folk song called Korobeiniki which Ozma did a cover of on Double Donkey Disk (I think it was that album, it's been awhile since i listened to Ozma). The song actually has a lot of history behind it, just check out Wikipedia.

[Taylor @ Jun 21st 2007 8:26PM]

Cool, thanks a lot for that info. I suppose since I was never a Tetris fan, I wouldn't have caught on to that. I too have not listened to Ozma in such a long time that it took me quite a bit of round-about internet searching to just recall their name. Strangely enough, All Music Guide doesn't link Ozma with Weezer, either as sounding similar to or influenced by them. Oh and Ozma broke up a few years back.

[Yojimbo @ Jun 21st 2007 2:29PM]

Originally these things were designed for energy transmission over long distances and levitation... Oh Tessy old boy! See what they can do NOW!! Huzzah!

[doug makofka @ Jun 21st 2007 2:59PM]

Ion tweeters have been around for a while. Here's an example of a modern one: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Magazine/equipment/1002/acapellavoilin.htm

[RobFX @ Jun 21st 2007 5:45PM]

These Tesla units sound better in my opinion. Plus, they can play the "Weird Science" theme. :)

"Played by Solid State Musical Tesla Coil built by Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves and the Austin, TX Chapter of The Geek Group"

Mario Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5V_9s0Gfw

Weird Science Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfo0NJkh3A

Tetris Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYHPZgq_Kgo

[Queitsch @ Jun 21st 2007 8:26PM]

I just saw the first speaker without any moving parts, and thus hopefully the future of speakers.

[Peter @ Jun 23rd 2007 11:34AM]

I'm not sure, especially in this day and age, I believe what I'm seeing.

[Mark @ Jul 20th 2007 7:05PM]

What was the song starting at 0:29. It's so Damn catchy I want to find the artist.