Gearfuse

I’ve got to book a trip to Tasmania because if they have jellyfish with fucking bright rainbows shooting out of them, I can’t wait to see what the shit on land looks like. Some jellyfish researcher (really?) named Lisa Gershwin discovered the new species off the coast of Tasmania. The crazy part about this jellyfish is that it doesn’t even sting, thus allowing you to play rainbow jellyfish football all day. Too bad it falls apart into a gelatinous goo once it hits your fishing net. Total bummer.

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Found on Flickr user Tableauvivant’s page, this above photo shows the musical components of a Hallmark musical greeting card. I must say, this is quite surprising. I was sent a few musical cards back in May and when I took them apart, I found a tiny PCB with a piezo speaker and some other circuitry. This appears to be a speaker with gears and cardboard. Very cool. I wonder how you could hack this thing to make it play different tunes.
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