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DIY Wolfgang Keyboard Bench made from Recycled Keyboards!

One of the things I like about designers these days is the fact that a lot of them are using recyclable materials to re-use and re-make new cool things like this Wolfgang Keyboard Bench, featuring recycled keyboard pieces as it’s main design.  Of course, I imagine how comfortable/practical this keyboard bench is when the keys can be pressed down.

I would certainly want something like this in my livingroom someday.  This is a great work of an art that deserves some attention.

The Wolfgang keyboard bench is made up of 2000 keys imbedded into a layered Baltic birc

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Recycled DIY Art using Old Skateboards!

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Skateboards are probably one of the toughest built sports gear out there (and probably the reason why skaters like to throw them up in the air for no reason).  Haroshi, a skateboarder and artist in Japan, has devised a way to make some great art using old skateboards.  I would have to say these are indeed works of art, definitely check it out here.

“As a skater, I want to take responsibility of reusing skateboards when they were no longer useable,” Haro

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DIY Hard Disk Art! [Recycled Art]

These are definitely some of the most amazing recycled art using old hard disks.  I give it “2009 hard disk art of the year” award.  🙂

P.S. keep up the great work Rivera!

Rivera’s first sculpture was made out of a standard 3.5-inch hard drive, and designed to evoke a car. “It wasn’t really difficult putting this one together since I didn’t have to modify anything other than the cover — everything else just screwed on,” he says. It took 33 hard drives — each wheel made of eight discs from gutted drives, and one intact drive for the

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