Nerd Alert! IDEO Wants You To Feel Your Music Again

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The good folks over at the highly esteemed designed studio IDEO want people to touch their music again. But figuring that there's not going to be an uptick in non-digital music sales anytime soon, they went ahead and brought a cool concept to life. Using the c60 Redux concept seen in Martin Bone and Kara Johnson's book, I Miss My Pencil, IDEO built a box filled with Arduino Pro Mini boards that look for and read RFID tags that are built into special cards that contain two songs each. You throw a card down on the player and the song automatically starts playing—flip the card over and the "b-side" song starts to play. It's a cool mix of the digital and analog worlds. Peep the video above to learn more. [Engadget]

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