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This article was published on May 1, 2015

Meet Kurt Cobain: Gadget reviewer


Meet Kurt Cobain: Gadget reviewer
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Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy. Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy.

When he wasn’t writing songs, it seems Kurt Cobain was buying gadgets.

Here he is, in an interview from 1993 pulled from the Hollywood Rock Brazil archives by MTV News, enthusing about his newly-purchased dream machine. Imagine what he’d have made of Oculus Rift

Oh, by the way, that electric shock device he’s got isn’t a Taser and the company is very keen to make sure you realize that:

Screenshot 2015-05-01 09.23.57

➤ Kurt Cobain Plays With A Taser & A Dream Machine Device [MTV News]

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