Taiwanese artist builds car from 25,000 discarded cell phones

Here's a mobile car. Literally. Taiwanese artist Lin Shih-Pao spent $30,000 and four years traveling the world, collecting thousands of old and discarded cell phones to complete this unique art installation.

The life-size F1 race car was built out of 25,000 mobies glued and nailed on a wooden frame. His goal is to spread environmental awareness, showing how a pile of junk can be recycled and transformed into a piece of modern art.

[h/t: Yenisafak]

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