Some people are able to play multiple music instruments, but it would be hard to carry all of them all the time. Titan Reality introduces you to Pulse, it’s a virtual reality musical instrument platform of the future that makes it possible for you to discover and play any musical instruments with a simple app […]
For the 44th Tokyo Motor Show 2015, Yamaha Motor Booth features the theme of “Resonate. The Yamaha Motor Product Orchestra.” This special booth will display a 20-model array of concept and production models, including 6 world premiere models and one Japan premiere model. At this booth, visitors can see how Yamaha has evolved its vision […]
Balmuda is a Tokyo-based technology company that has produced award-winning products, such Balmuda The Toaster where some people refer it as a game-changer in the kitchen. This time, we’d like to tell you about Balmuda The Speaker. At first sight, Balmuda The Speaker looks like a nice lantern, but it is actually Bluetooth speaker […]
There are 565 International Design Mark Winners named Taiwan’s Golden Pin Design Award 2015. This design award is administered by Taiwan Design Center in Taipei that seeks innovative products and projects cater specially to meet the needs and expectation of Huaren (Chinese-speaking) consumers. Here’s our favorite design list in random order. 1. ASUS ZenWatch2 by […]
Laurent Bernadac, a French electric violinist, has designed 3DVarius. This is a fully playable 3D printed violin based on the model of real Stradivarius violin. The main goal here is to create a unique design inspired by the shape of traditional violin, this unit is printed as a single piece. Even though it’s inspired by […]
From motorcycle to music, this is what happens when motorcycle designers are tasked to design a musical instrument: Yamaha Raijin “God of Thunder” Drums. Yamaha Corporation and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. has worked together for the “AH A MAY” project. They decided to switch 2 design divisions between them to design products without limiting their […]
Yamaha O±O or O Plus Minus O is a conceptual electric powered assisted bike born out of the project of “AH A MAY”. It’s a special Yamaha project that made two design divisions of two Yamahas exchanged their design fields. For this project, a musical instrument designer has come up with an e-bike that re-charges […]
As part of “AH A MAY” project, Yamaha has exchanged design fields of their 2 design divisions. Now, imagine when a motorcycle designer is tasked to design a musical instrument. The result is Fujin “God of The Wind” Marimba, it’s a conceptual music instrument designed for 2 performers where they can combine and multiply their […]
Craft your music with Blues Box Guitar System, you will experience joy and satisfaction while playing. This guitar system has everything you need to play authentic American Blues, it is a 3-string fretless cigar box guitar with instructional CD, a glass slide, and 32-page instruction book. It’s a great instrument for beginners as there are no complicated […]
Do you want to know what happen when musical instrument designers design a motorcycle? Well, project AH A MAY (Yamaha spelled backwards) has interesting idea by exchanging Yamaha 2 design divisions and give them tasks outside their design fields without any constraints related to commercialization or production. The project goal is for designers to stimulate […]
There’s no shortcut when learning to play a musical instrument, it’s not going to be easy unless you’re a musical genius. gTar has been designed and developed to help you learn to play guitar easier, it has a multi-touch LED fretboard to guide you what to play and how to play it. This digital device […]
Sony Walkman was the first successful portable audio player. It introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry music everywhere and listen to it using earphones/headphones. This brings users in a sort of isolation state that initially was Sony Walkman’s main and successful feature, but then it became an obstacle to […]
We just got design submission from Fulop Gellert, it’s a concept car called Toby. Yes, the name reminds us to “A Special Story about Toby”, you can read the reason behind this cute name from the designer’s own words below. The concept cars name is Toby. It might seem a persons name and it is, […]
Pininfarina Chords Concept was inspired by music, a futuristic sportscar that features similar vibration strings system which is produced by musical instruments. This car can transform any low frequency vibrations coming from those strings into energy, an innovative technology known as Mini Energy Harvest, developed at MIT. The strings are installed to the car’s exterior […]
Accordion cabinet is part of “accordion collection” from Elisa Strozyk, a designer and Sebastian Need, an artist. Just like its name suggests, this design was inspired by accordion, a box-shaped musical instrument that you have to make compress and expand movement to play. This furniture definitely represents the unique surface of the musical instrument, the […]
Based on its name, we believe you’re probably can guess how Accordion Tent is used. The design was inspired by the musical instrument which takes up so little space when fully compressed, but it becomes large when you expand it. Therefore, this compact and smart Accordion Tent design is very efficient to be transported for […]
Time in Notes watch concept was proposed by Laszlo of Hungary for TokyoFlash. This watch has been designed using e-paper in which the time is indicated by melodious musical notes. It has AM/PM utility and also consist of 440 Hz “A” resonance to help in tweaking the musical instruments. There is an option to disable […]
