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Enjoy By employs eggs that have been sawed in half and implanted with PIC microcontrollers and LED displays.

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Each egg’s display glows through its shell indicating the number of days remaining before the egg goes bad. A pulsing dot at the bottom right of each egg’s display simulates a heartbeat. When an egg’s number of days remaning reaches 0, its display and heartbeat fade out. The piece is a comment on the increasing pervasiveness of technology.

A work by Krister Olsson and Takashi Kawashima.