Awesome concept+execution! Funnily enough, I did exactly the same thing when I was a grad student studying tangible interaction 2-3 years ago.<p>My advisor loved the idea of foreign objects (a kenyan sculpture, a japanese wood block carving, etc.) being imbued with local music (in his own words: "computationally-mediated arts and crafts, rooted in the traditions and material expressions of specific regions and cultures").<p>Sadly, my code forever remained buried deep on our SVN repo, and not even a paper came out of it.<p>Congrats to the author for doing something that I didn't do- actually putting your work out there! :)
This is cool - but I think it doesn't scale in the real world. If I've got, say, two thousand albums, well damn, all of a sudden having them all over the place on platters doesn't sound so good. The nice thing about vinyl is, while it takes up space, <i>it is the music itself</i> and has value other than as a pointer. Really neat little project, though.
The "next track" gesture confused me slightly. It looked like he went backwards, then I realised he was swiping the current one away like the iPod player.<p>Nice idea though.
this is really cool. not sure about its practicality but i don't particularly care.<p>would love to see this built-out to where i could take any album in my (digital) collection and add it to the experience.<p>has a very retro yet futuristic feel to it and i totally dig it.