{"id":577,"date":"2010-01-14T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T22:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/01\/jailhouse-tech.html"},"modified":"2015-10-14T03:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:14:42","slug":"jailhouse-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/01\/jailhouse-tech.html","title":{"rendered":"Jailhouse Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kevin Kelly<\/a> notes an emerging category of street technology which might be called Jailhouse Tech<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The material constraint of a prison inspire fantastic innovation and re-use of made parts. A lot of the devices made in this manner are crude weapons, but others include eating implements, tattoo instruments, music, and other tools.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Above you see an electric cooking stove<\/a> made with wire and brick. Kelly previously linked to Escape Devices<\/a>, the work of photographer Marc Steinmetz<\/a>. Also of note is Prisoner Inventions<\/a>\"\", a 2003 book which includes many drawings,some of them online<\/a> (review 1<\/a> & 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Kelly notes an emerging category of street technology which might be called Jailhouse Tech: “The material constraint of a prison inspire fantastic innovation and re-use of made parts. A lot of the devices made in this manner are crude weapons, but others include eating implements, tattoo instruments, music, and other tools.” Above you see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[246,315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}