Rhea Jeong's Void LP player concept cheats at gravity
By Paul Miller 
posted Jun 27th 2009 6:25PM
posted Jun 27th 2009 6:25PM
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Me also want.
Well, Steorn should be selling one of these soon...
Where's the VW bus eh?
thats pretty epic tbh, i wouldn't expect the sound to be great just looks good
cool!
that red ball is not gonna stay up there
That's what she said....wait...what.
wtf!!
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Are there aliens inside it?
if this actually works i would so buy it and listen to all my family's stash from the 50-70's
I clicked the link to the VW Killer which took me to Engadget Chinese translated via google, and it is pretty funny to read the posts and comments after the poor translation. DO IT NOW, and rejoice.
Agreed. That was a good chuckle.
hehehe
I decided to go to engadget chinese home, and the second article read: "is not recomended to pull into the drive to", talking about those new 16 gig mini flash drives.
google translate has some work to do.
There are THREE responses
Thats why he said read the posts (not just the POST)
"Grilled white toast said coke too long! iPhone 3GS the same!"
Gotta love Engrish, especially when it's Google Translate Engrish.
Why are we still using needles? Can't they do something with a laser?
We did. It was called the Compact Disc.
They have the technology with lasers, however it is absurdly expensive at this point. Along with that, the laser cannot be so close (as the needle/amp/speaker red ball is) and therefore the design would need to be completely different.
I was thinking it would be cool to have the laser in the base and get rid of the red ball all together.
BEHOLD! The Laser Turntable:
http://www.elpj.com/about/index.html
I'm pretty sure this is what the US Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada use.
I saw this on digg this morning. It is purely conceptual; this could never work.
Oh god i can see that red ball getting off balance and scratching my precious 180g vinyl. Neat concept though.
Although an amazing concept, I have the same exact fears of something like that scratching my records. Even more so, I feel the point of 180g vinyl is lost on the fact that the red ball acts as the speaker.
Forget vinyl and wax....shellac would be perfect for this!
unless the magnet fails, then your screwed.
Probably sounds about as good as a cell phone speaker, but such a cool idea!
Why not throw a bluetooth chip into the ball instead of a speaker? Then you could use whatever speakers you wanted.
That's actually a really good idea... I KNOW that we can fit a Bluetooth chip, and a battery in there if we can fit it inside all the tiny headsets.
anyone thought of how awesome this would be if the speaker was an induction charged bluetooth audio transceiver instead? way better sound quality, and also just plain awesome
sweet
This Engadget China post is better:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fchinese.engadget.com%2F2009%2F06%2F27%2Fwhite-iphone-3gs-reportedly-overheats-turns-a-browner-shade-of%2F
hmm interesting
Wow! Life imitates art. I believe I saw this concept in a 1930's film. Was it "The Shape of Things to Come," or an H. G. Wells film? Anybody?
so this is cool and all... but who designs this stuff? people without jobs? i dont understand the "business" of making art concept designs like this. and yeah, i know, its sort of a starting point for others to push forward and make into a real product, but is this a job someone would have? Do they just do this stuff for fun in their free time? i just dont see how there could be any money in a job like that
Weird.
I think you've all been duped.
this is gonna take my Conway Twitty 45's to a whole new level.
Given the fact we are talking about magnets, the sound could be decent... What would be really killer is if the dude somehow made the thing wireless transmit the audio to a head unit... bluetooth or something.
Want!! Not bored enough yet!!! My grandparent's LPs would finally interest me!
Damm that's so dope!!!
I wonder what it costs...
Oh great, let's levitate my ancient Beatles records and balance a ball on top of them. Should turn out fine!
if it simply levitates a surface like that, i don't care if it plays music or does ANYTHING practical at all. I will buy it. The coolest magnetic levitation device I've seen is a floating globe. I need something that goes to another level like this.
Um, what keeps it spinning? Methinks the designer has a poor grasp of physics.
the magnet most likely spins around inside the base