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The Neo Gramophone: Audio as Sculptural Artwork The Neo Gramophone is both a throwback and step forward in one, with a polygonal minimal-modernist speaker form which hearkens back to an era of scratchy vinyl audio while actually abandoning the former medium for an updated feature of streaming audio via Bluetooth, complete with hidden subwoofer inside it’s horn speaker housing.

The Neo Gramophone: Audio as Sculptural Artwork

The Neo Gramophone is both a throwback and step forward in one, with a polygonal minimal-modernist speaker form which hearkens back to an era of scratchy vinyl audio while actually abandoning the former medium for an updated feature of streaming audio via Bluetooth, complete with hidden subwoofer inside it’s horn speaker housing.
08 Feb 10 3 notes

 
Music and Tech Recap — January 2010


This is a great run down by Gabriel Nijmeh of the flurry of activity that’s occurred over the past two months, from funding to new launches to analyst insights.

04 Feb 10 20 notes
Good for a laugh, and yet this was the the effective state of affairs not so long ago. Indistinguishable from magic, indeed. (via suzannexie)

Good for a laugh, and yet this was the the effective state of affairs not so long ago. Indistinguishable from magic, indeed.

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01 Feb 10 0 notes
The resistance grows in strength as we get closer to shipping, as we get closer to an insight, as we get closer to the truth of what we really want. That’s because the lizard [brain] hates change and achievement and risk.

Seth Godin, Quieting the lizard brain

These and other insights from Linchpin, Godin’s new book. It’s outstanding.

31 Jan 10 6 notes
Nick Gentry’s Floppy Disk Art

Nick Gentry’s Floppy Disk Art

30 Jan 10 35 notes
Big Brothers (via datavis)

Big Brothers (via datavis)

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Fast Future CEO Rohit Talwar discussing a joint U.K. government/Fast Future study on the top 20 most popular future jobs of 2030

19 Jan 10 10 notes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

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Active Child — “Wilderness”

09 Jan 10 11 notes
They’d rather watch web video than anything broadcast. There is nothing Hollywood makes that can hold a candle to Fail Blog for them. Was it the control that the DVR gave them that made them so drawn the ultimate control of the Web? I’m not sure, but what seems clear is that they’re not going back.

Chris Anderson, Editor of Wired Magazine, describes the impact of DVR on his kids in The Decade of DVR

(via Mike Hudack)

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