harps

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Design

Harp Chair Massages Your Back With Horrible Music

11:10AM Sean Fallon | I appreciate the originality of a chair that massages your back with the vibrations from harp music, but there are a couple glaring reasons why this thing isn’t worth $US7000. More »
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Gadgets

DIY Time Harp Instrument is no TARDIS Sound-Effect Machine

6:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | “Argh, um, ooh… actually that’s kinda interesting” is an approximate record of my thoughts as I heard the Time Harp play in this vid for the first time. The robo-musical instrument grinds plastic discs against strings to make them resonate, activated by motion sensors. And it produces…well, a kind of vooming hum that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the sound of Dr Who’s TARDIS dematerialising. Designed by Larnie Fox, I like it for its low-tech strangeness and eerie sounds. Plus its the sort of sound that’ll pop up in the background of some dance tune or other, and now you’ll know where it came from. [Makezine via Crunchgear] More »
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Entertainment

Laser Harp, Officially The Best Thing We’ve Seen All Morning

1:52AM Mark Wilson | We never had our run in the ’80s in which the volume of our rock was only superseded by the volume of our hair, but should we have been given access to this laser harp—even for a moment—we’d have immediately conquered both the world and the Billboard charts. More »
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