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The Gesundheit Radio was an art project exhibited in MOMA, the "back-story" of the piece was reported in the press without clear indication that the work was an art exhibit and back-story complete fiction. ==Artwork with fictional technological history== The playfully imagined "radio", exhibited at MOMA by artist James Chambers,〔(James Chambers' website: Artificial Defence Mechanisms ). Retrieved 1 August 2012.〕 but according to Chambers' backstory first seen in 1972, was engineered to ''sneeze'', blowing out dust and shaking its case. In the backstory, the radio did this routinely once every six months. The Radio was supposedly created by an experimental research group at Texas Instruments. The exclamation "Gesundheit!" ("Health!", i.e. "Bless you!") is the German response to someone who has sneezed.〔(Wiktionary: Gesundheit )〕 In the artwork's fictional history, it was however not German, but had been designed by the "Attenborough Design Group", supposed to have been active in the 1970s and 1980s, and an experimental section within Texas Instruments, where it was their first product. Other whimsical artworks with technological inspiration supposed to have been created by the group included the AntiTouch Lamp which avoided human touch, allegedly to protect its halogen lamp. In the fiction, twice a year, the radio's case would lean back and use internal bellows to blow out the accumulated dust, supposedly to protect early microprocessors from dust and ensure a longer life for the device. The artists suggest that this feature is at odds with the built-in obsolescence of many modern gadgets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Developed to Protect Early Microprocessors )〕 Continuing the fiction, the radio's users supposedly had the option of overriding the bi-annual sneeze manually, with a SNZ button (not a clock radio's "Snooze" function) to activate the sneeze. In the fictional history, the experimental research group within Texas Instruments was said to have examined how behaviors in nature could be applied to design; in this case, the ability to sneeze. It was said to be investigating the potential of other animal actions to be used as defense for a 'family' of between 3 and 5 products, and re-interpreting the standing hard drive (an earlier artwork) as a portable floppy disk drive so as to fit in with the Attenborough Design Group's fictional timeline.〔 The whimsical device's legs popped up when coffee was spilt on the table under it, keeping it out of harm's way.〔 The video on Vimeo shows the radio ''sneezing'', visibly expelling dust through its front.〔(Gesundheit Radio ) on Vimeo, showing the artwork's "sneeze" mechanism. Retrieved 1 August 2012.〕 It was exhibited at the Royal College of Art while Chambers was studying there.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gesundheit radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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