Cellphone embedded in road surface

"Un cellulare incastonato nell'asfalto," spotted in Italy by Michele Aquila. Bruce Sterling describes it as "Pompeiian, yet utterly abject."

Source [ibcbulk's photostream via Beyond the Beyond]

[#1 posted by Not a Doktor , August 25, 2008 1:30 PM]

:)

we need to pave our roads with the bones of our dead (devices)

[#2 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , August 25, 2008 2:12 PM]

That's not embedded, it's rising out of the primordial tar ooze through spontaneous generation.

[#3 posted by indiecognition , August 25, 2008 2:31 PM]

The paving was shallow and pedantic.

[#4 posted by vamidus , August 25, 2008 2:50 PM]

Wouldn't it be nice if the device still worked?

[#5 posted by Frank_in_Virginia , August 25, 2008 4:43 PM]

I'll assume it is on some ring road.

[#6 posted by Bucket , August 26, 2008 1:17 AM]

"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let ’em go, because, man, they’re gone."
--Jack Handey

Except in this case it's a cell phone and hot tar.

[#7 posted by strider_mt2k , August 26, 2008 4:08 AM]

Even the road is rejecting it.

[#8 posted by zeta , August 26, 2008 4:15 AM]

Ahh, the M65. I loved this phone. Had two of them (in black and grey), but unfortunately my temper forces me to destroy things. Nice side-effect: always a new phone...

[#9 posted by strider_mt2k , August 26, 2008 4:36 AM]

Anger management through destruction of consumer goods as a pathway to upgrades.

You must be a lot of fun at Thanksgiving.