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i-sleep by Ivonne Dippmann. Now you can sleep on your laptop with this i-sleep pillow. i -sleep is a comfortable soft pillow which be attached on your laptop. If you tend to fall asleep, your just close your laptop, a pillow gets filled with warm air, music is being played and after 10 minutes the alarm clock rings. Cool!
Heating up
By closing the laptop an air cushion blows itself up, which is connected by a valve with the fan of the computer. The computer is in the “sleep mode” and warm exhaust air is blown into the pillow. The material is coated with Latex at the inside, so the supplied warm air can be kept for a longer time. The heat supply is interrupted by opening the laptop again.

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The Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file.

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Someone with a lot of time on their hands made a Top 2000 of music videos.

It’s done by someone from my country so there may be some Dutch artists in there with songs that you may have never heard of but most of the other ones are probably familiar.

The music tools made by Roland back in the days have been remade by Hobnox to create a kind of online Reason.

Go make some beautiful music at HobNox Audiotool

With a touch screen interface, 8GB of internal storage, and a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (€279, ~$386; Q4 2008) has a lot of the same features as the iPhone — but one big one Apple’s handset is missing. The 5800 is among Nokia’s first handsets to support Comes With Music, a service that will provide one full year of all-you-can-eat downloads from the Nokia Music Store. Other features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, video recording, Flash support, built-in stereo speakers, and more.

This JVC optical-disc (DVD, CD — DiVx, MP3, etc) Boom-box looks awesome. It features deliver 540 watts of power to the 4-way speaker, 5-tray DVD/CD changer, remote control, its speakers look so cool!
This system includes a five-disc changer which can play your favorite DVD movies, along with your CD collection. It can even play home-burned CDs containing MP3, WMA (Windows Media Audio), and JPEG files. You can connect a portable MP3 player or other device to the front auxiliary input, while a USB port allows you to listen to music from your Mac or PC.

This studio grade headphones from Phiaton are engineered with a carbon fiber enclosure for accurate response and high quality audio. They also claim to have worked on the airflow, optimizing it to deliver “concert hall sound quality”.

Want it? get it @ https://www.phiaton.com

Bass hits the desktop in Altec Lansing’s new Expressionist Bass Speakers ($150; October 2008). These cone-shaped PC speakers pack a 4-inch long-throw subwoofer into the base of each, with 1.5-inch drivers handling the mids and highs, removing the need for large, typically floor-bound sub enclosures. Finally, a reason to upgrade our aging Creatures.

Play with the ePiano. just fool around or record something serious, or not. Check it out.epiano.jp

Designed by Joonas Saaranen, Reppo II is a hardshell boombox backpack with integrated speakers and high quality digital amplifier.

Just plug in any audio source, strap the whole thing on your back and share your favorite tunes with your friends on the go.

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The Victoria and Albert Museum has purchased the original artwork of the Rolling Stones’ tongue logo for $92,500. John Pasche designed the logo in 1970 for £50. Read the full story on Creative Review’s Blog.

The Holeder Earphone designed by Yoonsang Kim. It fits snug in your ear, easily loops together around your neck when not in use, a good idea! [ via ... ]

Really neat and hypnotic music machine. Experiment with the different musical patterns.My favorites are: Chromatic-non-primes only and, Bell carol

Enjoy this one. Let me know what you think. coverpop.com

radiohead’s newest music video claims to be the first ever to be shot without use of cameras or lights. of course, that’s bit about “first ever” is total bullshit, but the video based on a technology called data visualization looks cool. and you can only see it if you click here.
and even more important to note here is the fact how masterfully the guys from Radiohead work the social online media craze so many marketers and agencies are at a loss to grasp. huge respect, Radiohead!

Those looking for the most stylish, minimalist speaker system around would do well to take a look at the Sony Sountina ($11,800). This six-foot tower/speaker is made from glass, with cylindrical speakers that emit sound in a 360-degree circle to provide equal audio quality regardless of the listener’s position. Other features include a 13cm woofer, a 7cm mid-range driver, and interior lighting that alternates displaying blue, amber, and purple.

John Mayer the musician has partnered up with the NYC artist Kaws on some small projects. Kaw has designed some guitar picks for John. On one side of the pick printed with Kaws’s designs while the other side features both artists signatures.

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mykawan.com give space no limition for you! share your music and video. 100% from Malaysian beb!

If you are a music buff like me you will enjoy browsing through this fresh list of the current top 10 hottest music sites. My favorite one (last.fm )wasn’t even on the list (well, it got an honorable mention). Anyway here is the list.

Listening Post’s Top 10 Hottest Music Sites [blog.wired.com]