The next Spotify?
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First, after the amazingness of Spotify in recent months, we’ve been similarly impressed by a new start up called DoubleTwist. The idea is to allow you to play your music, films or videos wherever you are, no matter what device your using. While we haven’t tried it yet, it certainly looks impressive and it’s now open for public beta.
Also impressing us this week are some of the thinnest speakers we’ve ever seen. Warwick University has invented a new material, less than a millimetre thick and flexible as well that can be used to transmit sound. It’s supposed to sound better than current speaker technology as well. Who knows, maybe your wallpaper will also be your speakers one day.
On an arty tip, we loved these album sleeves reimagined as old book covers. Done in the style of Pelican books, see albums by bands such as New Order, Primal Scream, Kraftwerk and Underworld retro-ised. Very clever. Finally, more light heartedly, and in a long tradition of such videos and webpages based around people purposefully mishearing lyrics, we liked this cute video (with illustrations) purposefully mishearing Joe Cocker’s lyrics.