This gorgeous golden tapestry is actually a functional computer

From fastcompany.com

The computer you’re reading this on is made of glass and hard metals–but what if computers could be made using soft components, sewn together? That’s the idea behind The Embroidered Computer, an artwork that looks like an embroidered tapestry but is actually an electromechanical computer that is similar in power to the eight-bit computers of the 1950s. Those mainframe computers filled entire rooms with their wiring, but this computer was made with handmade copper coils, a magnetic bead, and gold and silver conductive thread. Using traditional embroidery methods, the Vienna-based designers Ebru Kurbak and artist ... (full story)