Featured in Tech Crunch and then picked up by Wired UK Jordi Parra's final degree project for his Interaction Design MA from the Umea Insitute of Design has recieved a lot of buzz recently.
Inspired by the work of Dieter Rams for Braun the project put simply is a device to listen to Spotify at home. The project looks to take digital music and turned it back into a physical product, creating a beautifulSpotify player from wood and plastic.
"I'm interested in the way music industry is evolving," Parra told Wired.co.uk, "and I really miss not being able to physically share music the way we used to a few years ago." So he put together a player that plays tracks on Spotify chosen by tokens containing RFID tags. Each token represents a particular album or playlist, and placing it on the player immediately begins playback. Parra explains: "Each RFID tag has a unique ID [and] there's no music in the tag itself. The prototype checks what music the current tag is pointing to on a database and starts playing it."
For more details check out Parra's blog
Or check out the vimeo
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