Contemporary lifestyle is deeply affected by mobility. People travel a lot, because of their work, for personal interests, or simply to enjoy themselves. Strict boundaries between workspace, home, social spaces, and entertainment venues no longer exist. Developed for the Nokia Nseries Design Award competition, Megaphone is your next mobile music experience: just a seat for trade events or a music amplifier for Nokia mobile phones.
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In today's stressful times, the new device by San Frisco based Industrial Design Pinpach Piyatiratitivorakul is exactly what the doctor ordered. This interactive therapy and stress reliever designed for home is something that will relieve the users of stress that is inculcated in their day to day life. Serene is a device that can be played in groups or solo, when one has leisure time at hand. The device consists of two parts with the top being a remote control which gives the user the flexibilit...
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Carry a pocket knife everywhere you go. This Tool Logic CC1SB Credit Card Companion is so slim and light you might even forget you carry one, but it’s highly functional when you need a knife. This 2” stainless steel blade is razor sharp and serrated, you can cut any materials with ease. This survival card is pretty handy to help you with life’s sudden unforeseen emergencies.
Zoybar is a modular hardware kit for creating custom electric string instruments and effects by its users. The modular parts can be assembled as different instruments that could be mounted with numerous kinds of sound effects and controllers. The result is mashup instruments that enable the player to play and manipulate the sound simultaneously and directly from the instrument. Want to give it a try?
Designer : Ziv bar ilan...
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Check out this wireless multi-track recording device known as Opus especially designed for musicians. It allows the user to intuitively compose, record and produce musical material. A musician can intimately interact with another musician around the world in a virtual live setting via an Internet based community. Opus is a portable unit with an integrated stand that can be taken anywhere for live and studio applications. Opus allows you to record up to three tracks at one time. So, this wireless...
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Tokyoflash Kisai Maru LCD watch is the latest futuristic watch design from Tokyoflash. It features simple interface, a combination of edges and circles, pretty intuitive time display in mirrored LCD.
"Xylophone Bin" is an amazing creation by Dominic Wilcox designed for Danish Company Vipp's charity auction event held in New York. It is not an ordinary bin but it plays music. Xylophone bin is made up of oak and steel. When you press the pedal, the lid opens and it releases a ball that travels down a spiral set of xylophone steps around the bin. Whenever that ball touches a step, a note is played and while going down, the note gets lower. It is hard to see such a musical concept and that too f...
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Check out this awesome backpack that will surely catch your attention. Reppo II looks like a stylish bag with in-built pair of full-range loudspeakers and an amplifier. This concept is designed by a student Joonas Saaranen. You just need to plug in any audio source, tie the whole thing on our back and share your choice of music with your friends. It would have been better if the big black patches were a sub-woofer. The whole concept is just perfect for all music lovers. So, get ready to kick out...
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Yamaha piano table will help you to be a star and steal the show by performing on an amazing little concert. Now it is possible for your friends and family to sit comfortably on a variety of distances and positions while you are plying your favorite song on Piano. Yamaha Product Design Laboratory has come up with a beautiful and sleek design "Key between People" Concept. There is no front or back of this table. You can simply sit anywhere you want as this 'Key between People' is inscribed in a c...
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"Freesbe" is a great concept to broaden your musical horizon. If you are a true lover of wireless technology then this concept is specially designed for you. With the help of this you can easily broadcast your music. Not only this, it gives you the chance to listen to what others are listening. You can say that Freesbe is a Radio with a difference. It is really exciting to create your own radio network totally made by what others are listening. Its sleek black look adds to your style and you can...
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Imagine this...for every move you make, you can create a unique sound, cool huh? I bet DJ will love this PACER suit concept. The Pacer suit receives electro impulses that appear when muscles are activated (movement), amplifies them and turns them into sound with the help of the sensors attached to muscles. Each impulse is goes through the sensors via amplifiers (boxes on the back) to control panel where we can control volume, type of sound, select rhythm to follow...With this suit it is possible...
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It's a classical relationship between music and architecture. The University of Graz, in Austria got a new music theater called the Graz Theater (also known as Mumuth Theatre). Designed by Ben Van Borkel and Caroline Bos, it enthralls anybody who visits the theater.
There are two entrances, one for performers and other for the patrons. Go inside, and get transported into a world of springs. The main stage itself is in a spring form thus creating a immense feeling of space and the entire theat...
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AudioTorch is a wireless and Ethernet Light and music system with a built in cd player and speakers. It was designed to be applied on any corner of the house with a projection menu displayed on the wall. With the wireless controller you can change the color of the lights (menus and projections) as well as control the cd player, sound menus and Ethernet music listings play from your home computer. ATM&L system is made of aluminum and abs plastic covered with a rubber thin layer.
The wirele...
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This unique table surely will entertain you and your guests no matter they are a musician or not. Musical Furnishings has launched the Musical Rumba Series tables, hand built by artist Tor Clausen in his Olympia, Washington studio, and each one comes with a collection of interchangeable and re-arrangeable percussion inserts. Design your own personal drum table with durable, interchangeable and rearrangeable percussion inserts. Choose from four different sized tables to suit your musical and spac...
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Music note stand is important part for musicians when they are playing an instrument. Turning each pages can be very hard while at the same time they can't stop playing their music, they will need some help from an assistant. Based on that idea, CLEF was born. CLEF is a conceptual digital music note stand which also supports computer functions such as surfing the web, listening to the music, multimedia editing, etc. Musicians can read through flexible LCD and turn each pages in this digital musi...
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Everything is going to be touchscreen in the future, this wall-mounted cd player also combines the functionality of a touchscreen. Antoine Lebrun and Volkan Akbyik designed Alacantara Pandora for the Alacantara Design Contest in 2007, combining the sensitivity of Alcantara, Alacantara Pandora brings new materials and new codes in the closed field of electronic, offering the user a new experience.
Designer : Antoine Lebrun and Volkan Akbyik...
Folding guitar is really a good news for Fredrik Johansson, a airline pilot and a guitarist too, he got sick of getting his guitar onto planes. Folding guitar is a fold-up electric guitar that fits into your backpack which you can take just about anywhere. Made from Honduras mahogany with aircraft-grade aluminium, you can fold this guitar into your backpack in 20 seconds, this is a great problem solving with portable guitars, which look weird and sound worse. You can order this fold-up guitar a...
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