Located in Dresden, Germany, the small colorful house is built with some funnels on the wall and they’ll create charming (really?!) musical sound whenever the rain comes. Due to that interesting and unique idea, the wall is also one of the most enjoyable attractions in Dresden’s student district in the new town.
Life is music, thus we all love symphony instead of monotony. Keeping that in mind too, a Dutch designer Jeriel Bobbe has created the ‘Suitcase Symphony’ using several rearrangeable wooden panels that each features a ridged surface, to take the place of monotonous floor in airports. Assembled together, the panels will produce a particular music composition as people pulling their suitcases through on them. Even though the music created by these panels is not that fabulous as those produced by an instrument, it indeed sounds more pleasant than the monotony of airports.
Audio Wrap is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a bag wrapped with flexible speaker on the surface, allowing the users to enjoy music in a more convenient and fashionable way. The flexible speaker adopted to make these bags is developed by the governmental Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan, and it can produce the same volume as a small mobile speaker. So, when you wanna listen to music on the go, play your bag!
Keaton Music Typewriter is a practical machine that can type on a sheet of paper lying flat under the typing mechanism. It was firstly patented in 1936 by Robert H. Keaton, and at that time the machine had merely 14 keys. In 1953, Robert redesigned the typewriter and built with 33 keys, making it more ideal and suitable to use. It was marketed in the 1950s and sold for around $225, and now it appears on the market again, with a surprisingly high price of $5,895.
Quite surprisingly that sand can dance to create an awesome kind of art, with the aid of vibrations. Just as shown in the video below, as musician Kenichi Kanazawa uses a stick to form some vibrations, various beautiful images then gradually emerge on the surface, to entertain both our eyes and our heart.
Love music, love sport, the stylish Feats Per Minute bike from Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong is rightly something brings us the fun of both rhythm and cycling. It’s equipped with turntable inspired wheels that play vinyl records, thus beautiful tones will come out of the megaphone like speaker on the back of your bike as you ride it in the streets.
Not long ago, LG developed a MCV904 Mini System that removes the voices from any music and lets the users to sing instead. As a result, every common person can become the singer of Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga’s music. It’s a cool system and of course needs a cool idea to take it to more people. So the designers built a small mirror over the real singer’s picture and replaced the customers as the lead singer when they look at the CD. The action lasted for 7 days in 6 CD stores, successfully reaching about 25,000 people while costing only 2 cents per impact. [Read the rest of this entry...]
They’re not ordinary glasses as they look. With detailed calibration on their bodies, these glasses can be used to play music when they’re filled with expected amounts of liquid. So interesting.
Hey all you music lovers, divert your attention from digital players or speakers! Let me show you something interesting. It is the USB Phonograph, an old classic music player that comes with a modern look. Simply connect it to your computers and you can enjoy your music played with a phonograph, isn’t that great? Truly we love everything that would evoke our happy memories of the past days. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Ever needed a bed that can offer you beautiful music? Have a look at the iCon Bed then. It is announced to be “the world’s first bed designed to work with Apple’s iPad”. The bed comes with four fully enclosed speakers, a powerful amplifier and a dock station for two iPads. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Is there a more luxurious piano than this? The 88-key digital piano comes with a beautiful wood grain, built-in speakers, and even a cradle to hold an iPad. Therefore you can either enjoy moving music from the piano’s amplified speaker system by plugging in an iPad, or create some sound by playing the piano. But whatever you choose, you’ll be always taken to the stage by the Concert Piano. [Read the rest of this entry...]
When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, he may never have imagined that the device could become so “slim” after several important changes. But R.D. Silva does make the phonograph change quite much. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Guitar strings don’t just produce beautiful sound, and in fact they create an amazing atmosphere in and out of the stage as well. With guitar strings glowing and moving in the dark, any band can bring the public into a more fantastic world of music. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The super-cute snail ukulele was specially made for one of the designer’s friends. It uses hard and soft maple as main materials, which constitutes the “neck” and “head” of the snail. To make sure that the instrument will have a good performance, the designer also builds volume and tone controlling buttons on it. If you’d like similar or other types of instrument, you may contact with the designer for an order too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Something else! Resembling the cool look of DSLR cameras, these two products shown here actually cannot be used to take photos at all. But they can be used in other ways, to play music or save your coins. [Read the rest of this entry...]
