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The Atom ukulele

Mark Frauenfelder at 9:37 am Thu, May 3, 2012

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Paul Celentano's Atom Ukulele is available on his Etsy store for $650. (Thanks, Courtney!)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Ziebarf

Imagine smashing this thing on stage.
coreyi35

Oh, you mean the instrument. Right, yes.
http://gspirits.com/ Zod

forget the Uke, I wanna see the chick!
Baldhead

Headstock is very reminiscent of Bootsy’s Space Bass, the latest version of which is pretty awesome as well. http://cdn.techietalk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Penn-Elcom-Janal-Breast-Cancer-NAMM-1-Bootsy-Collinsa-150×150.jpg
- Ziebarf
  
  Also this maybe?
  http://willbarnesonline.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/26.jpg
Rich Keller

That is snazzy. It would never occur to me to to make a googie uke.
http://twitter.com/samthepea Sam Pourasghar

I would have gone with “Nukulele” or “Duke Ukem”. *cradles head in hands and weeps at the punnage*