The Mobile Mobile is a magnificent and melodious module of merriment

Faced with an agency-wide phone upgrade that left fifty older HTC devices homeless, UK-based Lost Boys International decided to act on instinct in the most natural of ways: by turning each device into a cog in a musical mobile that hangs just inside the entrance of its Brick Lane studio. Even better, all those phones are connected in a way that turns each one into a member of some crazy techno orchestra, the results of which can be seen after the break in an unbelievably fun rendition of a Christmas song you're bound to hear a dozen more times today. If that's not enough, you can also control it live, thanks to a webcam and a flash interface that accepts keyboard commands. LBi Creative Director James Théophane has the project chronicled if you want the full details, but more importantly, just make sure you experience the holiday choral after the break.

[Kirtay Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:27AM]

Very cool.
And I can hear Trans-Siberian's version of that over and over.
And over.

[Brando Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:27AM]

Yay, Christmas!

[One Love Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:33AM]

If you stand too close you will pass out from all the phone radiation.

[Gayest Faggot in the World Posted Dec 24th 2009 1:16PM]

@One Love

What are you talking about passing out from cancer I fe......................[thud]

[Redon Gor Posted Dec 24th 2009 1:39PM]

@One Love
You're smoking pot

[F C Posted Dec 24th 2009 2:31PM]

@One Love

Not w/ a nice spliff in your hand.

[Kalian Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:40AM]

They would have been better off pawning those phones off on ebay =/

[XIYL Posted Dec 25th 2009 3:34AM]

@Kalian

Nobody wants a WinMo phone with just a 200mhz processor in it. I know, I have one and I push it way too hard.

[MultiKdizzle Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:47AM]

I work at Burger King making flame-broiled whoppers out of paper.

Would you like an Apple pie with that?

[Khris Posted Dec 24th 2009 12:59PM]

@MultiKdizzle If you're going to quote something, get it right.

Ding fries are done. Ding fries are done.
Ding fries are done. Ding fries are done.

I gotta run. I gotta run. I gotta run. I gotta run.

I work at Burger King making flame-boiled whoppers
I wear paper hats

Would you like an apple pie with that?
Would you like an apple pie with that?

[Khris Posted Dec 24th 2009 1:04PM]

Ouch, and then I fail to proofread!

Broiled, not boiled!

[Arr Posted Dec 24th 2009 1:42PM]

@Khris No. Flame-boiled works better.

[uclajames Posted Dec 24th 2009 2:24PM]

@MultiKdizzle actually it is "I wear paper hats"

[Khris Posted Dec 24th 2009 2:47PM]

@Arr Those two words just don't go together. It's like saying beef stew and toothpaste!

[kbduvall Posted Dec 27th 2009 3:08PM]

@Khris That's exactly what I was hearing.

[schmidt1985 Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:47AM]

This is the most amazing christmas thing ever!!!!!!!!!!

[schmidt1985 Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:53AM]

@schmidt1985
Also this makes me just want to bust a move.
Play that funky music white boy?

[amarlhagi Posted Dec 24th 2009 10:51AM]

for some reason that persons hair looks green to me???

[Futbolkeeper Posted Dec 24th 2009 11:11AM]

It's a Festivus miracle!

[cge10 Posted Dec 24th 2009 2:10PM]

@Futbolkeeper Lol that was one of the best Seinfeld episodes ever!! Happy Festivus and don't forget to put up your pole!!

[Futbolkeeper Posted Dec 24th 2009 3:07PM]

@Futbolkeeper
Don't forget about the "Airing of the Grievances"!

[Viscid Posted Dec 24th 2009 11:29AM]

They just need to put wheels on it now and make it a Mobile Mobile Mobile.

[alzrnb Posted Dec 24th 2009 11:50AM]

@Viscid +1

Take it to Mobile, Alabama on those wheels

[Freakin Ijit Posted Dec 24th 2009 12:06PM]

And use THAT brand of oil in it and slap a decal on it then it can be a Mobil Mobile Mobile Mobile.

[Gayest Faggot in the World Posted Dec 24th 2009 1:14PM]

@Freakin Ijit Technically, that would be a Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile Mobile...i don't think that is too redundant...

[Xenoterranos Posted Dec 24th 2009 2:50PM]

@Viscid

Then make fifty of all that and make a mobile out of them.

Noam Chomsky would be proud.

[wooba Posted Dec 24th 2009 11:45AM]

I love the Garmin song..

[GingerFox Posted Dec 24th 2009 12:01PM]

That is actually awesome!!

[SirBC Posted Dec 24th 2009 12:02PM]

Baby Jesus would be proud!

[r3tr0b0t Posted Dec 24th 2009 12:14PM]

I've been all bah humbugged this whole season, and now, oddly enough, I am in the christmas spirit. Thanks engadget.

[AM321CAN Posted Dec 24th 2009 1:50PM]

what a totally ugly environment for this beautiful thing, set that pos up in timesquare yo fo sho!

[jin and guice Posted Dec 24th 2009 2:49PM]

I will say it: Finally, someone found a good use for a Windows Mobile Phone!

(Sent from my Windows Mobile Phone)

[streamtime Posted Dec 24th 2009 3:04PM]

Nice, but a bit of a rip off of this one http://www.vodafone.co.nz/symphonia/

[eruh Posted Dec 24th 2009 3:31PM]

it's a play on words, just like Moebile from Moe

[robgreen Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:20PM]

Okay now that's a Christmas present I can appreciate, having something the company you work for (and that has annoyed the receptionists no end) actually make it to your favourite gadget blog!

Cheers Engadget :)

[Trebawa Posted Dec 24th 2009 6:39PM]

Now if they moved it, it would be Mobile Mobile Mobile!

[Jason Murray Posted Dec 24th 2009 8:31PM]

It looks like the set of Attack Of The Show :)

[Speedogomer Posted Dec 25th 2009 10:54PM]

@Jason Murray

...only it would be better with Olivia Munn standing below it

[Johnathan Posted Dec 26th 2009 1:42PM]

That was really good... but the beginning and ending beeps reminded me of SONAR, I was kind of expecting to hear someone shout "Dive, Dive"....