{"id":3095,"date":"2007-05-04T21:41:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T01:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/05\/04\/i-think-my-mouse-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T01:45:57","slug":"i-think-my-mouse-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/05\/04\/i-think-my-mouse-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think My Mouse Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deadbeaver\"A US artist and inventor has combined IT and taxidermy to create a computer housed in a dead beaver.<\/font><\/p>\n

Kasey McMahon, 34, from Los Angeles, spent three months creating his Compubeaver, reports Metro News.<\/font><\/p>\n

And, in separate but related news, two more US inventors created a computer mouse housed in a real mouse.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ms McMahon said of her Compubeaver: “I started thinking about the most ridiculous thing to put a computer into and decided it had to be a beaver.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"deadmouse\"“It looks at how nature relates to technology.”<\/font><\/p>\n

She bought the beaver ready-stuffed, before cutting out the foam insides with an electric kitchen knife. Once she had cut space for the computer tower, she reinforced it with fibreglass.<\/font><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, biologist Christy Canida and environmental studies graduate Noah Weinsrein took the concept of a computer ‘mouse’ to its natural limit.<\/font><\/p>\n

Both contribute to the Instructables website – which describes how to make similarly odd creations – and made the mouse using the skin of a real rodent bought dead from a US pet shop.<\/font><\/p>\n

from Ananova <\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

That’s all we need. Our cats have already smashed three mice, getting tangled in the cords, pulling them down from the desk just for fun or in a pique of attention deficit disorder. On the other hand, a nice tortoise shell might make an attractive computer case….<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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