Rubik's Cube Concept MP3 Player
If the folks behind the Rubik's Cube ever want to venture into the MP3 player industry, they can thank designer Hee Yong for already doing most of the work. For whatever reason, Yong has come up with a Cube-inspired player that uses the puzzle's layers to control music playback. There's nothing about the device "to solve," as vertical twists and turns are clearly not possible (unless that LED breaks apart, of course), but a certain combination of horizontal swivels does unlock the player for use.
Take a look at the picture below and you can see dedicated fast-forward, rewind, play/pause, and stop buttons . . . er . . . squares on the LED side of the Cube.
For obvious reasons, there's no word on pricing, availability, or other specs. But if you like what you see, you can check out Yong's full portfolio here.
[Yanko Design via OhGizmo!]
Comments
Aprime on January 17, 2007 10:23 PM
I'd love to see a PC like that. :V
Mikael on January 18, 2007 10:42 PM
does anybody think this is talking tactile control a bit to far? I do hate touchscreens but this? but it does look cool.
cheers
-Mikael
aeioux schemata on January 24, 2007 10:37 AM
As a designer I find this a complete flight of fantasy really - wonderful idea but wholly impractical and unergonomic. Imagine fitting that in your pocket, even if it was MobiBlu scale (and then the screen would be unreadable).
Seems that the novelty of it being like a Rubiks Cube garnered its attention, but perhaps thats a small case of sour grapes because my iPen concept has been ignored... ;-)
rgds
aeioux schemata
Harris on June 18, 2007 8:29 PM
If they actually made it a square 1 cube, they could have made it a actually functioning cube. Really wish they did that. They could have used the immobilized part of the square 1 piece for the MP3 player.