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Somethingscopes are a series of objects that explore interactive/reactive phenomena from the eyes of a Victorian time traveler. These electromechanical/optical contraptions draw inspiration from simple machines, and what they do is basically try to interfere/react with/to computer screens.

A distant cousin of the Somethingscope is the contemporary widget, a small application that runs in its own window and provides very specific information to the user. A Somethingscope can be seen as a physical widget of sorts, in the sense that it is a small contained system that lies on the screen and it might react to and influence whatever is happening at the GUI level of the computer OS, but since a Somethingscope is physical, it could be understood as a kind of reverse augmented reality, that is, augmenting the virtual from reality.

As this is a work in progress, our self-imposed brief might be subject to change, nevertheless the spirit of the idea is to recreate simple physical/optical phenomena that could persuade humans to think and feel about the dialectic of the physical and onscreen worlds and . Or something.