RFID — it’s not just for creepy tracking anymore. Don’t believe us? Check out this sweet table that turns RFID-tagged discs into music when dropped into one of four bowls. The discs are made from vinyl records, and each bowl has an RFID reader connected to an Arduino. Dropping a disc into a bowl triggers a drum, synth, guitar or bass loop. There’s also an LED by each of the bowls to indicate which loop you’ll be hearing. Video of the table in action, after the break.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the world that my kids will soon live in. Books will be like vinyl records – clever and beloved artifacts of an analog age, hoarded more for reasons of nostalgia and scarcity than value. I honestly think that the book I’m working on now will be the last physical book I produce and that future books – if anyone lets me write them – will be more like multimedia information sources rather than formal, 80,000-word masterpieces.
Clearly Penguin thinks the same thing. PaidContent had some interesting news and footage from a recent iPad presentation and their ideas for books are stunning. For example:
Many of Penguin’s iPad books seem hardly to resemble “books” at all, but rather very interactive learning experiences, from its Dorling Kindersley and kids imprints – the Vampire Academy “book” is “an online community for vampire lovers” with live chat between readers, and the Paris travel guide switches to street map view when placed on a table.
My concern? The publishing industry may not be able to keep up. When publishing becomes more like animation, new technologies will have to accrete over historical norms. The editor/writer relationship is already strained, but what happens when the writer also has to collect vampire pictures, star charts, and video footage? Are you really publishing a book, at that point, or are you doing something different entirely.
Where do you think books are going? I for one have been collected classics in print for my son to read (every nerdy teen needs a fat copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach to pretend to read) and I will miss the day when we’re no longer rustling the leaves of old books at the flea market.
Vinyl records are making a comeback. Yeah, in the world of instant music downloads and portable music, a lot of music fans are falling in love with vinyl – again. Make found a fantastic five minute video showing the process Gotta Groove Records employs. It really seems like a relatively simple process, requiring only a few machines. Click through to watch the video and gain a bit of respect for the music lovers whose passion brings us vinyl records.
Looking for that great music or video game title but don’t want to pay the price of new, well look no further. Try one of these great stores for your hard to find or gently used music cd’s, DVD’s, computer games or console games and even those older vinyl records.Buying used or older CD’s or video games does not have to be a risk of your money. If you buy from a store that guarantees’ it’s product, no matter what product that is, you can be sure that you will get quality. If you purchase from a smaller or locally owned store you an be sure they will want to keep it’s customers happy for their own reputation. That’s why you can be sure to trust and get good quality and service from these smaller stores. If you are purchasing a used CD or DVD you may be getting a refurbished one.
If you want to experience if they are doing this or if your getting a used single that has not been resurfaced, simply ask. A lot of of these stores would be refurbishing or resurfacing the discs they sell. This is a simple procedure that cleans and removes the scratches off the surface of the understanding side of the disc to ensure you get a greatest disc. This is accomplished with a machine that resurfaces the disc and you can e sure that this has been completed by seeing at the disc. If there are nothing scratches or marks on the surface of the polished side of the disc, either you got lucky and originated that particular disc that an individual took concern of or it’s been resurfaced. This procedure does not harm the surface it only cleans and removes scratches so you get a good greatest disc without any scratches.
Cheapo Discs is a chain music shop that is locally owned and deals a huge choice of euphony. Located at 409 Main Avenue Moorhead Minnesota, 218-233-3337, they have a big choice of music and I experience they resurface their discs on site. They have the machine to clear off the scratches and they offer a huge choice of music and DVD’s. They yet have a section of fix xbox 360 restricited music from those littler hard to get bands who construct their own CD’s. They have machines to hear to several of the select and nearly all common music at the shop so you can be sure your getting what you need. 702 Communications is a communications provider in 2 locatings, Fargo-Moorhead-Dilworth and Wahpeton-Breckenridge. The companies offices for the Fargo Moorhead domain is at 702 Main Avenue Moorhead Minnesota. Their agency in the Wahpeton domain is at 325 Dakota Avenue Wahpeton.
702 Communications is a jointly owned limited liability partnership initially organized in 1989 to offer Interactive Educative Reporting and Sound helps to a collection of populace schools in western Minnesota.They are owned by 6 individual telephone companies who operate in the central Minnesota area. That process to it’s clients that they are not several distant off business that does not concern a good deal about it’s clients in a distant off state. Localized is what it method. A restricited company that has it’s clients in the same city as it’s offices and service centers.
The Compact Disc was quite a revolution when it came out. With a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and a 16 bit rate, CDs marked the shift to digital music. Unfortunately, it seems to have fallen from being the playback medium of choice. These days, people either buy vinyl records because “they sound better” (especially when played on your vintage hipster record player you bought from Urban Outfitters) or MP3s online for the convenience. And noone even thinks about cassette tapes anymore.
27 years ago, today, marks when the first commercial CD players hit the market. Sure it was in Japan, but they always get the good tech first. The CDP-101 was hardly affordable either: $2,200 if you wanted one, so that you could listen to any one of the mere 113 albums available at release. Then those were another $40 a piece, don’t forget. But that didn’t stop Sony from moving 20,000 of these units in a single year.
So today, we can set aside the hate of the music industry (might be hard, considering there isn’t one anymore) and say Happy Birthday to one of the greatest data mediums of all time.
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The Compact Disc was quite a revolution when it came out. With a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and a 16 bit rate, CDs marked the shift to digital music. Unfortunately, it seems to have fallen from being the playback medium of choice. These days, people either buy vinyl records because “they sound better” (especially when played on your