"This roundabout in Lyss, Switzerland is a giant vinyl turntable. It doesn’t actually spin or produce any sounds and is lacking a tonearm.



The roundabout has a total diameter of 12 meters, with the record alone being 10 meters. Attached to its side are 800 silver metal washers. It made sense for the creative folks at KUFA to be in charge of designing their roundabout as KUFA Kreisel is located at a freeway entrance near a popular cultural venue called Kulturfabrik."

Much better than covering roundabouts with vision impairing gardens.

Cool! There are loads of roundabouts in the UK just ripe for updating. I wonder if there’s a CD one and an open-reel one as well? The cassette one would be slow to get around, as would a VHS and Beta tape one.
Just boring traffic lights for the digital streaming brigade I’m afraid.

AMR-iFi R&D

Colin, have you traversed the Magic Roundabout ?

Who named that ?

Hi Michael, no not been through it (too scared!!) but been nearby. It’s just south of the station in Swindon, named after The Magic Roundabout kid’s tv show. Apparently it used to be called County Islands but probably developed such a fearsome reputation that by the 1980s the locals dubbed it The Magic Roundabout. I’ve been through one in London with 4 junctions, that was scary enough. Great if you know where you’re going but nightmarish if you don’t! There are so many signs as you approach, it’s almost impossible to decipher them all and drive in the correct lane at the same time. But the Swindon one is quite a safe roundabout apparently as speeds are relatively slow.
Just thinking of a potential roundabout shaped as a cassette. An example of giving directions for it: enter at the chrome tab, go past the pinch roller and off at the erase head. If you get to the recording tab you’ve gone too far. 😀

AMR-iFi R&D