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The Wikipedia entry for the Codex Seraphinianus states: "The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.[1] The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing."

The book is truly fantastic, full of animals, inventions, customs, cities, and other aspects of a fantasy world. The idea of an encyclopedia of a wildly different fictional place created in a mad-up language reminds me of the Voynich Manuscript but while that seems to have been a hoax, the Codex Seraphinianus seems to be 'merely' an art piece.

The look is quite similar to the movie "Fantastic Planet" from 973.

Kaden Harris makes steampunk sculptures, or at least steampunk-like sculptures. According to him, he makes "'machina arcana'- arcane machines" - "antiques from a parallel universe, Da Vinci, Cleese and Neutron still spend every Tuesday night playing poker with Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian era 'gentleman inventor' still toils diligently in his potting shed laboratory."

Another definition he uses is "randomly selecting medieval, industrial age and art deco influences and gamely struggling to make them all coexist in a post-millennial world. Out of scrap metal. And hardwood."

Anyway, it's cool.

m-Box — Electronic Music Box

The child's version of the m-Box will be smaller, plastic, and as stated eariler, will rely on markings on paper rather than holes.

The range of notes will be greater, as will the number of possible notes per composition.

This version will be battery-operated.