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Recliner[_2_] September 11th 12 11:51 AM

If London were a circuit board
 
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-...circuit-board/

Quote:
Go straight at the antenna. Designer creates Tube Map Radio, a map of
London's underground, using a series of electronic components.

Wanna get from South Kensington to Piccadilly on the London
underground? According to artist Yuri Suzuki 's Tube Map Radio, you'll
just need to pass the capacitor and get off at the resistor.

Using an electronic circuit board, Suzuki created a radio that looks
like a map of the London underground. He even strategically placed
components to reflect London locales -- a speaker volume knob sits at
the site of the famed Speaker's Corner, for example, and a power
battery gets placement near the Battersea Power Station on the south
bank of the River Thames.
....
Suzuki based his Tube Map Radio on Harry Beck's 1933 spoof map of his
own original diagrammatic design for the London Underground map. He
drew the spoof as an electrical circuit.

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