The Blenderphone

Combination blender and telephone by Tom Myers, Art/Not Practical © 1998.

It's a combination blender and telephone. It's fully functional as a telephone or blender. WHY? is the most FAQ (Frequently Asked Question).

It's for people who like to hear: "Where in the **** did you get this?" If you're looking for a sensible, mass-produced appliance, you're better off at [Sears Roebuck].

If you want your friends to think you're insane, but quote you like God anyway, this is the appliance for YOU!

The "ringer" is the blender motor,which pulses like a telephone bell, except angrier. To answer, pick up the pitcher out of the base and put it to your ear. Usually, the caller can hear the motor spinning down just after you pick it up.

To hang up, replace the pitcher in the base, just like all the other boring telephones.

Each blenderphone is hand-made starting from a standard blender and standard telephone, with a smattering of electronic parts and handmade internal linkages. Painstaking detail work hides its custom origin so it looks and works like it came "off the shelf" of some department store.