The wowPOD is art, or so we're told

Have you always dreamed of a giant, wall-hanging iPod seemingly warped and twisted like a big, crappy, old television? Well, Russian artists Aristarkh Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin have, and now they're subjecting the world to it. Yes, say hello to the wowPOD, a fully functional iPod mutation which is absolutely worth whatever our business manager has been authorized to pay for it.

[Via TUAW]

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 6th 2008 8:51AM]

Oh man this artist was just on House!

It's the three test drugs he was taking! It was the test druuuugs!

[High Ranks make you sterile @ Oct 6th 2008 8:55AM]

....wow

win.

[CubeGuy @ Oct 6th 2008 10:07AM]

It was the hairball! The hairball!

[StalematE @ Oct 6th 2008 1:28PM]

drug trials + hairball = fail

[TheMarioKarters @ Oct 6th 2008 5:19PM]

His girlfriend was hot.

Also, your comment = win.

[Flashpoint @ Oct 6th 2008 8:59AM]

FAIL

waste of $

[allislost @ Oct 6th 2008 9:00AM]

The persistence of memory is a vision found once and imitated by many.

[Wolfticket @ Oct 6th 2008 2:07PM]

Very win.

[BuddyBoy @ Oct 6th 2008 9:03AM]

I'm surprised this got passed Apples legal team, if it's fully functioning isn't that copyright infringement? Or is "Art" safe from that?

[konshuss @ Oct 6th 2008 9:06AM]

joke's on him, he'll need Apple once the battery runs out...

[Liam @ Oct 6th 2008 9:18AM]

Yeah. It's not exactly going to take sales away from them, is it?

I have no idea how they made a curvy wierd screen.

[Jash Sayani @ Oct 6th 2008 9:08AM]

Bad days for Apple.... First, an AirPort Express copy by CNet Technologies, then the TOSHIBA E105 that looks exactly like a MacBook, and now the WowPod !!!

[archibalis @ Oct 6th 2008 10:07AM]

to Liam

I think there is normal screen inside and other part is made by software.

[CubeGuy @ Oct 6th 2008 10:08AM]

@Liam

It looks like there's just a square screen behind the warbled plastic. I'm more interested in how they got the click wheel working.

[Jash Sayani @ Oct 6th 2008 9:06AM]

Readt it at TUAW yesterday... Why cant people just use the Apple iPod...? You dont need to wall-mount a WowPod in your bedroom to listen to some music !!!

[Jordan @ Oct 6th 2008 2:11PM]

it's ART, idiot. it doesn't serve a purpose. NO ONE is gonna mount this in their bedroom.

[talrico @ Oct 6th 2008 9:22AM]

What is this? 4th Gen? Please.

Well, maybe if I can swap out those headphones and use my own.

[BuddyBoy @ Oct 6th 2008 9:36AM]

Well it has a iPod Classic (6th Gen) interface.

[chuck @ Oct 6th 2008 9:24AM]

Nice showerheads

[allislost @ Oct 6th 2008 9:38AM]

I bet steve jobs has those in his bathroom... with a large water proof ipod-like interface on the wall for quick access to his music, movies, book, wall mounted dildos, tv shows, and anything else he might need at hand.

[jorvay @ Oct 6th 2008 9:33AM]

Seems interesting enough to me. A piece that reflects an iconic symbol of today's society with a variation by the artists (waviness) that leaves the piece open to interpretation. I like it.

[w4rh34rt @ Oct 6th 2008 10:56AM]

LOL! Loser ^_^ Art is all crap. Face it.

[Godfail @ Oct 6th 2008 9:37AM]

No mention of Salvador Dali?

[allislost @ Oct 6th 2008 9:43AM]

... was my comment too esoteric?

[jovay @ Oct 6th 2008 9:55AM]

Man...that'd take a lot of Swarovski crystals to cover....

[Stem $ell @ Oct 6th 2008 11:32AM]

Comment of the day!

[phail @ Oct 6th 2008 11:21AM]

i would buy one of these if it wasn't all wavy.

[Mylanta @ Oct 6th 2008 11:03AM]

"Dude, I told you not to leave the giant iPod in the car in the middle of the day like that...didn't you read the manufacturers warning?

[Sirius @ Oct 7th 2008 6:30AM]

I'm pretty sure the overheating battery caused that :)

Maybe the hot sun induced it to overheat..

[Valgas @ Oct 6th 2008 11:19AM]

so speakers are in those buds huh? cool. would have been cooler if the thing wasn't warped. that makes it art because it's warped though right?

[ugg.tryptophan @ Oct 6th 2008 6:18PM]

no, art is open to interpretation; this piece is not to my aesthetic tastes but is interesting nonetheless

[allenvanhellen @ Oct 6th 2008 11:47AM]

I should not have looked at this right before bed. This is going to give me nightmares.

[RowdyReptile @ Oct 6th 2008 12:24PM]

...wowPod? I was thinking more appropriately... whyPod

[DirtyVegas @ Oct 6th 2008 1:13PM]

How does the clickwheel work? Does this thing need the user to be on some "special medicine" to operate it?

[Cybergypsy @ Oct 6th 2008 1:16PM]

Very cool :)

[Vicada @ Oct 6th 2008 2:51PM]

Thing gives me the creeps. WHO FUNDS THESE PEOPLE?!