If cars could gain weight, this is what they’d look like, according to Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.

The flesh-like aluminum bulges and drips from the frame, wry commentary on a Western culture that’d sooner drive round the block than walk it, perhaps.

Or possibly a vision of how cars will metaphorically appear in a post oil civilisation, fat from disuse, clogging driveways and garages with their useless, immovable bulk.

Anyway, Wurm’s work got me thinking as to what a videogame console might look like if it put on some weight.

Here’s a PlayStation 2 that I overfed during the festive season: