Phonograph CD Player

by: yong jieyu & ama xue hong bin

a 2 day workshop with joris laarman. the aim is to analyze a product in its history and function and redesign it.

a cd player was disassembled and the components rearranged to suit the layout of a phonograph. the speakers are put below the trumpet loudspeaker for amplification. the wooden box is made slightly more spacious then the electrical pcb board needed to achieve bass resonance. the laser pointer is shifted to the top allowing the spin of the cd to be clearly shown.

by bringing back a familiar nostalgic form of a phonograph, the design seeks transport the user back to the golden age of phonographs in early 1900s where sound broadcasting had a magical feel…

jieyu-design

BBC Flash Games

2 flash games based on the game of cricket courtesy the bbc.

note – knowledge of cricket (while helpful) is not really required, especially regarding the second game…

• last man standing
  
• out for a duck
  

Trend Micro Patent Suits Few

familiar story of corporate greed, this time from trend micro, a maker of anivirus & other security products.

click here to read the article…

Welcome to Social FM!

i would like to invite you all to join the hottest new network – social.FM – a rapidly growing community of extreme music-lovers connected over a peer-to-peer network, legally sharing music through P2P radio! (although i have been a member of this site for over 2 years now, only recently have i started to take an active role…)

social.FM is unlike any other P2P around, in that you can:

• access the world’s largest collection of both popular and rare music (you aren’t restricted to music from the major labels)
• listen to others’ digital music collection in cd-quality legally (no pesky RIAA lawyers breathing down your neck!!)
• listen to your own digital music library, and know who else is listening in at any given time
• invite your friends to listen in with you, and develop new relationships with other music-lovers worldwide
• become your own radio station, web casting your own music collection
• enjoy a vast, incredibly diverse collection of music you won’t find anywhere else
• avoid spyware and adware – social.FM has none!

and the best part is, it’s completely free! no hidden costs/charges or subscriptions etc.

click here!

after downloading & installing the required software, look me up. my username is zahrans. just select dj and click the search button…

(adobe flash player is required. click here to download)