“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you”, the classic “Happy Birthday” is now played by this mechanical music box that comes with three blank paper strips, a hole puncher, an instruction manual, and a pre-punched “Happy Birthday” song strip. Because it’s completely different from other regular music boxes, it’s supposed to be “one of the best ways to celebrate a birthday”.
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...]
Michael Jackson’s album Thriller has affected many people. It also inspires Johnny Lighthands to create the Graveyard Shift Headphone, which is not only a true work of art but a fully functional device. I really couldn’t wait to listen to Thriller again with the awesome headphone. [Read the rest of this entry...]
To get a full appreciation of what a guitar means to us, we’ve collected these wonderful creations from all over the world. Each of them features a unique, outstanding appearance, which may make guitars more like artistic works rather than instruments. But whatever they look, we can still find the designers’ love for music, and that’s actually the most important thing for a guitar. [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you’re ever a fan of Rolling Stone you’ll soon figure out where the new Big Tongue Phone gets its inspiration. And the answer is actually Rolling Stone’s big tongue logo drawn by John Pasche in 1970, which appeared for the first time on the album of “Sticky Fingers” in 1971. Although it’s nearly 30 years since the first time the Big Tongue was made to the public, it’s still fantastic to see this famous logo again. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Why do we always keep players in pockets but not consider wearing them just like wearing a badge? I mean, these Play Buttons seem so nice that I even felt pity not knowing them earlier. Look out for them on Playbutton and you’ll love them too! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Nobody would like to collect old cans, plastic or floorboards, but I would, simply because I’d love to make an interesting guitar by myself. But before you see my work, you can now check out some awesome DIY guitars here. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Muse is a musical pot that amuses you. Collaborated by Lie Zhong-Fa, Koo Yoori and Jeon Se-Yong, the pot will play a song automatically when it is completely rotated to the left. The gentle tunes from the music box will not only offer you much happiness during the work, but encourages the plant to grow, so the device is really an invitation to make the best of both worlds, right? [Read the rest of this entry...]
What if your glass windows can work as speakers? That sounds really amazing, right? But before that, you should firstly learn something about the “Glass Speaker”. Measuring four feet tall and weighing 80 pounds each, the transparent speaker can produce a full 360° of sound and that’s about as perfect as other speakers. So how does the speaker work? According to the folks from Greensound, the base of each speaker can vibrate and the different areas of the glass slabs can create different frequencies of sounds, and hence a 360° of sound is produced. As mentioned above, you may one day see the window act as a speaker, too. Let’s just wait and see. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Matt Braun’s wine bottle can sing! You’d like to know how the bottle works? Well, drink down to a particular level, blow into the bottle and you’ll find it playing a note. Isn’t that great? [Read the rest of this entry...]
What would happen when you tap the drum? You’ll hear pleasant music, right? Or possibly you’ll see a light turns on. Designed for music enthusiasts, the Drum Light aims to delight the user with light rather than music. So every time you tap the drum, the light will turn on and with another tap, it then turns off. But you needn’t worry that the Drum Light will be activated by other sound, because the light also comes with a sensitivity control to manage the noises. [Read the rest of this entry...]
“Panasonic earphones, made for music!” The new packaging designed for the Stereo Earphones RP-HJE 130 has utilized the universal symbol for music—the note, to highlight the earphones’ high quality voice export. So we firmly believe that for every passionate music lover, the earphones are always the best. [Read the rest of this entry...]
What’s the angel and devil respectively whispering to you? The secret of the heaven and that of the infernal region? Whatever, it’s still interesting to see them together- one is on your left and the other on the right. Coming in 5 color combinations (white angel with black, purple, magenta, pink or red devil), the Angel & Devil Earphones are not new designs but really popular enough to be recommended again. So what are you waiting for? Get yours now. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It’s a CD player! The Drip with Song concept comes from Jongmin Kim, pointing us an interesting way to enjoy music. It includes two parts: the saucer is a CD player with built-in speakers, and the coffee cup is used to control the volume via simple turning. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Are you dissatisfied with your current jewelry, DJs? Those ordinary necklaces are not creative enough to reflect your personality, right? If yes, then you must have a look at the limited edition hand-crafted silver jewelry manufactured by Darkcloud Silver (an Australian based company founded by artist Nathan Thomas) for DJs and others who’d like to be part of the music. Available in different shapes of DJ gear like turntables and headphones, these luxury necklaces and rings are priced from $300 to $750 on Oye Modern. [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you think only certain instruments like the guitars and pianos could clearly show us how music is played, then let me correct you because the Noteput Music Table can perform that task as well as the instruments, or even better. It is an interactive musical device, allowing you to see, to hear and to feel the music simultaneously. The musical table employs the camera-based marker tracking, which could identify each note and their positions. So music (or sound) would then be created and heard as you place the musical notes onto the table. The notes could be played by using the sound of different instruments.
Hit the jump for the video… [Read the rest of this entry...]
Paintbrushes help you to draw beautiful pictures and instruments assist you to create celestial music. But the pencil we’re to argue today, however, also creates sound as you paint with it. How? Well, the secret is the sensor built inside the tip, which could detect the movements and therefore produce various sounds.
Video after the jump. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The White Fruit Radio by Swann Bourotte could be another option in that you can find great convenience and pleasure brought by the development of technology. Made of sycamore, the radio also integrates an LED substrate hidden under the thin surface to reveal its status. It has no knob or button, but employs the top ridges for the users to control the volume and tunes—all you need to do is to rub finger across. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Can the water tower be used for any other purpose? Just come in and check it out… [Read the rest of this entry...]
Designed by Yuan-Hao Hsu and Lin Tzu Hsuan, the portable ‘MU SPACE’ not only allows you to enjoy music everywhere, but also functions as a mat and a pillow for you to take a nap during the break. In combination of a built-in speaker and an MP3 player, the music pillow is also compatible with USB and Memory Card. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Korean VIBEBS will launch their latest project- an open type vibration earphone ‘BS-80HD’ two months later. The innovative earphone features vibration functionality for bodily sensation, due to which VIBEBS has claimed to successfully promote its earphone collections. To ensure you a comfortable and safe using, the BS-80HD also adopts soft silicone tips to rest gently in the outer bowl of your ear. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The designers always know clearly what we’ll want, and they’ve come up with the products already before we consumers realize our needs. Just look at the Music Drop Mp3 Player, it’s obviously another product meant for “unexpected pleasure”. It adopts a projection system to take the place of traditional LCD screens and therefore allows the users to check out relevant information on their hands, the paper or even walls. Light-weight, portable, personalized-shape and an easy way to use, all those advantages make the player a ‘most-needed product’ on our grocery list. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The music is for sharing, for example, you could enjoy the same music with your friends by using the same pair of earphones. But what if three or more people want to enjoy the same music? Plug more pairs of earphones to your iPhone? You must be kidding. So you’ll need the ‘Altec Lansing Mini’, a practical mini speaker that creates a 360-degree sound field and therefore allows you to share perfect music with your buddies all the time.
It is applicable to any players with a 3.5mm audio port and powered by a built-in rechargeable lithium battery. And the point I love most is the interesting way to turn on the speaker and adjust its volume, which is all controlled by a simple twist. That is, you need to twist the speaker to a certain degree to make it work and twist it further to control the volume. Cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Erez Bar Am is a recent graduate from the Shenkar College and his latest piece of work is the ‘Radio Active’ that is made through plastic injection molding. But what really makes the radio different and distinctive is the special way to control it. No matter you’d like to turn up the volume or change the station, you’ll have to pull out its strings and fix them on those bases fixed onto the wall. Yes, you’ve guessed right, ‘Radio Active’ is a radio that asks you to do some physical exercises when listening to the music. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The thought never flash through the gamers’ mind that he or she could do something special for the game and other gamers. And the Famicom Guitar is rightly made to celebrate a gaming gathering. Coming with striking red and white, it is really a cute guitar, and especially perfect for kids.
Liberate your hands! That’s not a female emancipation’s slogan, but actually what a player asks you to do. Thanks to the finger ring that comes along, the Melody Balloon could be easily controlled while it flies in the air when you’re listening to the music. Isn’t that funny? Imagine a young girl comes to you, accompanied by a flying player…That’s so cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]
