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Just like you and I, rock stars all have parents too. In the deep dusty corners of the Life Magazine archives, these pictures have turned up - famous 70’s rock stars with their parents, taken in their parents’ houses.
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$21,000. It could buy you a car, it could be a down payment on a house, you could take off on a couple of amazing vacations, have a really nice wedding, or it could pay for your sick mom’s liver surgery. Better yet, how about 3 meters of speaker cable?
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Let’s pretend for a moment you are P. Diddy and you just bought a diamond encrusted ipod.
What the heck are you going to use for earbuds to listen to it without looking like trailer trash? You can’t just use those silly regular $3.99 white things. Well, we’ve found just the thing.
No, this isn’t an article from The Onion … really, I promise!
I grew up watching MTV (and it’s Canadian counterpart, MuchMusic). It showed music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from bands like Van Halen, Rush, Kraftwerk, The English Beat and all sorts of cool bands. Shows were hosted by [...]
This is one of the most creative uses for an iphone I’ve seen so far. RjDj is an iphone/ipod app that uses your motion and the sound occurring naturally around you to make music. The application takes samples through the built-in microphone and uses input from the accelerometer and produces songs.
Our friend nanotechnology has produced a flexible, stretchable, transparent material thinner than paper that can be used as a speaker. This new material can be inserted into clothing, wallpaper, right into the ears or onto windows. The material has been developed by Chinese scientists and is made up of carbon nanotube films [...]
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Some say that laughter is the best medicine, and research seems to back this up - studies show that laughing has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system.
As it turns out, Music might be an even better medicine than
Oliver Sacks is a Neurologist who has spent a career investigating oddities of the brain and its capacity to confound humans. He has written a number of extremely compelling books on the subject, beginning with the book Awakenings.
A number of Years ago I read an Oliver Sacks book entitled
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