Luigi Colani is an unconventional product designer, artist, and philosopher. He designed the ultra-sleek, futuristic looking piano called Pegasus using nature as the inspiration. Luigi believes that nature creates perfect designs: “I believe in bio-design which uses a vocabulary whose inspiration comes from organic shapes with their violence and sensuality.” The likes of Lenny Kravits, [...]
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Custom Turntables for the Aficionado
Posted by NA Admin in June 1st 2009
Oakland, California based Joel Scilley is the creator of odd-shaped, natural wood, custom turntables. He prefers to use burlwood and other uncommon woods to make these turntable masterpieces. Each turntable has a “unique character,” many using the woods natural shape and Joel Scilley builds the turntables to sound and work well. Most of the designs [...]
Etymotic hf5 earphones review
Posted by NA Admin in May 13th 2009
Etymotic hf5 earphones review - I’ve had a really tough time finding good ipod or iphone earbuds. The ones that came with my iphone didn’t stay in my ears and sounded lousy. I bought some higher-end ones and felt like I needed to crank the volume up way to much to get good [...]
Plasma arc speakers - the most amazing speakers on earth
Posted by NA Admin in April 29th 2009
Plasma ion tweeters are an evolution the “singing arc”, invented by William Duddells 1900. He basically reworked a carbon arc lamp - which were known for being fairly noisy.
Now, William found that by varying the voltage to the arc, it changed the sound that was produced…. Bingo.
Much later a fellow by the name of [...]
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Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody: Old School Computer Junk Remix
Posted by NA Admin in April 23rd 2009
I just love creativity in music. We ran a story on the Kasio Kristmas music and the Gadget Orchestra, but this one in particular is simply amazing. It’s Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody ‘played’ entirely with old computer junk.
No effects or sampling were used in this song, basically the sound is coming from the devices that [...]
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The world’s largest piano.
Posted by NA Admin in April 6th 2009
Sometime bigger really is better. Adrian Mann of New Zealand is only 16 years old and has built a piano with absolutely no formal training. Not just any piano, mind you - the world’s largest piano.
He took 4 years to build the piano, completely by scratch in his back yard. Enjoy.
The CD turntable
Posted by NA Admin in April 4th 2009
Pete Verrando in an audio engineer who has 20 years of experience in Production Sound Recording for film and television. He works all over the world doing on-location recording.
Pete has built something that is part innovative, part steampunk and part crazy-geek-inventor-guy. It’s something I’ve often tossed around in my mind, but he has taken [...]
Amazingly flat, flexible, paper-like speakers.
Posted by NA Admin in April 2nd 2009
An incredible new technology has led to the development of potentially some of the thinnest speakers in the world. They are wide, flat and very flexible. They remind me of the carbon nanotube speakers that we wrote about a few months ago.
OK, maybe they aren’t the thinnest speakers in the world, but darn [...]
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