Music in Design: Playbutton
The Playbutton is a device designed to not only play music at your command, but also play the role of a common button of a certain album of whatever band had chucked it to you at their concert. The picture to the left shows that the model has chosen to wear the button of a band who features a fake bird one of their albums. The back of the button conceals the buttons: back, play, and next. It really looks like a common button, except it has headphones connected from the bottom of the button to your ears. At first glance, you wouldn’t know what was going on. As you begin to have conversation with the button, and hopefully the person wearing it as well, you'll begin to realize this button is really an mp3 player.
Some of the things I like about this product is just the idea of the button itself. This is a really great way to advertise your band's music without throwing those annoying Cd’s that require CD players to play. Another plus for me is how instant you can start playing with it. All you need is headphones and you're set. The batteries do run out, but have no fear, these buttons are rechargeable. Also, since a lot of our countries youth wear skinny jeans now a days, it is one less thing they don't have to carry around in their thin pockets. They can have a whole library of bands pinned onto their flannels, switching of from button to button, rocking out to their favorite Blink 182 album. It seems like they did some good research in designing this musical button.
The Playbutton is a device designed to not only play music at your command, but also play the role of a common button of a certain album of whatever band had chucked it to you at their concert. The picture to the left shows that the model has chosen to wear the button of a band who features a fake bird one of their albums. The back of the button conceals the buttons: back, play, and next. It really looks like a common button, except it has headphones connected from the bottom of the button to your ears. At first glance, you wouldn’t know what was going on. As you begin to have conversation with the button, and hopefully the person wearing it as well, you'll begin to realize this button is really an mp3 player.
Some of the things I like about this product is just the idea of the button itself. This is a really great way to advertise your band's music without throwing those annoying Cd’s that require CD players to play. Another plus for me is how instant you can start playing with it. All you need is headphones and you're set. The batteries do run out, but have no fear, these buttons are rechargeable. Also, since a lot of our countries youth wear skinny jeans now a days, it is one less thing they don't have to carry around in their thin pockets. They can have a whole library of bands pinned onto their flannels, switching of from button to button, rocking out to their favorite Blink 182 album. It seems like they did some good research in designing this musical button.
That's really cool! I have never seen that!
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