Z and I love digging into old toys, taking out useful parts, and repurposing them. Regular readers may recall our homemade robots, which I'll pull up from the archives this weekend and post here on our new site. But we have a harder time learning about the inner workings of toys we don't want to break.

Artist and medical student Satre Stuelke has found a way. He uses "an older four-slice CT scanner" to capture radiological scans of children's toys, presenting them both as objects satisfying our tinkerers' curiosity and as art.


Barbie, as it turns out, has amazing bone structure.


This toy rocket's simplicity is satisfying on a number of levels.

You can find larger views, dozens more examples, and 360-degree scan videos on Stuelke's Radiology Art website. Stuelke will also hear you out if you have an object you think he should scan. He also sells limited-edition prints - I didn't dare ask the price.

[Via NYT]