iQURAN
Crackunit’s Iain Tait reports on a recent trip to Mac reseller MicroAnvica:
Whilst browsing in Micro Anvika today I was looking at the plethora of digital music players, ranging from the gorgeously designed to the truly horrible. When out of the corner of my eye I saw one particular piece of gadgetary. I thought to myself “f**k me, that is the most horrible piece of ‘bling’ design I have ever seen in my life”. I assumed that it was an MP3 player (as that’s where it was placed in the shop). But when I found out what it was I felt shamed. Find out what it is…
It’s a digital Qur’an! And it looks like it comes with a Mecca compass too
August 7th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
[...] This GodPod machine furthers an emerging trend in non-transferable media players in the face of infinately copyable and transferable media. I went back through this blog and found the iQuran, Buddah Machine, Soundbomb as well as Alice Wang’s piece for the Hulgerisation workshop. They all create new formats that bind the player to the media inextricably. This creates exciting possibilities for the relationship between the music / sound / content and the physical object which plays them. A similar relationship between the record and its cover. From Redferret [...]
August 15th, 2006 at 9:29 am
[...] Music and Object hulger.orgThis GodPod machine furthers an emerging trend in non-transferable media players in the face of infinately copyable and transferable media. I went back through this blog and found the iQuran, Buddah Machine, Soundbomb as well as Alice Wang’s piece for the Hulgerisation workshop. They all create new formats that bind the player to the media inextricably. This creates exciting possibilities for the relationship between the music / sound / content and the physical object which plays them. A similar relationship between the record and its cover. [...]