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ICYMI: Tortilla tunes, Russian selfie safety and more
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-281613{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-281613, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-281613{width:570px;display:block;} try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-281613").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: Some genius decided to engrave a record into an uncooked flour tortilla and the thing actually plays. Russians keep doing such risky things for selfies that the government just launched a selfie safety campaign. And Google's Street View is being taken to a whole new level with an algorithm that stitches together frames to create seamless tours.
If records were tortillas, they'd sound like this
Time to ditch your vinyl (again), there's a new format in town: tortillas. Intrepid Redditor "UpgradeTech" saw this video, and was bored/inspired/curious enough to see if you really could turn the Mexican food vessel into a record. It turns out, you can. All you need are some uncooked flour tortillas (corn or cooked are too lumpy), and a laser cutter. Well, there's a bit more to it than that (converting audio to vectors, that kinda thing), but tortilla turntablists are, we're sure, willing to go the extra mile to get their classics down on the flatbread format (.tort?).
