• A Chiming Silver Swan For Your Morning Edification

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Friday, December 17th, 2010

    Hail, kinsman! Doth thou wish to clap eyes on my silver swan automaton? She doth dance and jape thusly: she is wound by a mechanism worked by a silversmith and hidden from view and slowly, ever slowly, she plays a tune of haunting beauty on a glass organ.

    She doth also capture flitting fish that do float below her and swallow them up whole like a real swan doth. A mortal man made her in 1773 and she still sings to this day, beguiling passerby with her regal stare. She is of witchcraft, it is certain, and must be burn’t.

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