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more about #piano Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Ok... now let's try this one. more » Margatron: I think this idea would work with lights too, and in a long-term installation would be less annoying. more » RebounD11: I wonder how someone sounds when falling down on those stairs :) more » Curves: I want to see the late night video of it, where the drunks are falling down and trying to climb back up then. (And the one guy who will pass out on t... more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I could see an elevator scaring you (even though they are very safe) but an escalator? What can possibly go wrong? When it breaks down it can only bec... more » AndrewJayPollack: As a firefighter, I've taken training on elevator rescue and safety and call tell you point blank that modern elevators are incredibly safe -- and ver... more » ★☆★ Waka ★☆★: See? Sweden is great, but still american comedians keep bashing IKEA and meatballs. more » Kaiser-Machead: Keyboard Cat doesn't approve. Piano stairs makes me hope to be there just as someone slips down it, so that their stumbling activates a comical out-o... more » Purple Dave: The chemistry department where I went to college had stairs that might have made you change your mind. They were just horizontal slabs suspended betw... more » RuBBa_cHiKiN: Rollin' in my Lada, ridin' Spetsnaz: Now if only you could make them replicate human voice, ala the previous article. more » taciturnforsale: the original inventor of the escalator expected people to continue to walk up the escalator. Instead of hoping on it and waiting for it to deliver th... more » Platypus Man: Yeah, at first, when it's something new, a lot of people want to try it. It's new and it's fun. However, I'd say that if they kept it hooked up for a ... more » maven2k: That was amazing. They need to do another one where you can hear more of the piano "talking" and less narration. more » pretsal: I'm kind of surprised people aren't so amazed by this. It just goes to show how complex the human voice is... Maybe making a piano talk isn't that a... more » dingus: Piano! Ve haff vays of makink you talk! more » OCEntertainment: So, the piano can talk? Big deal. My throat can do that WITHOUT a computer. more » chrisfox01: Do you have a weakness for guys who used to play the cornet in middle school? granted mine didn't talk, but I was one helluva horn blower. more » timothydean: It’s kind of like a cross between Puppet Master, Electric Chair, and Stage Mom. None of which are any good… for children. more » OMG! Ponies!: You can do this at home without worrying about electric shocks or any additional costs. Every time your daughter misses a note, punch her in the face. more » Parapraxis: sounds like something Vernon Dozier would use. If anyone can get this reference without using google, I'd be extremely impressed. more » -
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These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest of You
I'm a stair-taker because elevators and escalators give me nightmares, but for all those lazy folks who don't have fear motivating them to take the steps, there are these piano stairs. How could you not want musical accompaniment like that? More » -
#musicalinstruments
Austrians Must Make Great Interrogators Since They Can Make Even Pianos Talk
I have a weakness for piano players, but I don't think I can call this Austrian guy a piano player: He doesn't play them, he makes them talk. Freakin' hell, here I am barely able to play the accordion. More » -
#robots
Concert Hands Teaches Piano with Wrist Straps and Electrical Zaps
What looks kinda creepy actually sounds quite cool. The Concert Hands system teaches you piano (or keyboard) using a 10-finger feedback system that gently pulses when you should play, coupled with an automated wrist pilot that guides you across octaves. More » -
#pogue
David Pogue Piano Solo Imagines a World Without Apple or Gadgets
Here's the humorous David Pogue singing about a world without Apple in a way that only, well, David Pogue could pull off. -
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#music
Seiler Piano Supports Hands, Keys and Cars
This "suspension" piano by Seiler brings everyone's favorite style of bridge indoors and gives it a soundtrack beyond the typical roar of automobiles drowning out the subtle splashing of suicide jumpers. A meticulously crafted mahogany piano suspended on a cast iron frame, we'd be afraid to even touch a key lest we induce the sound of metal shredding expensive wood. But our guess is that the piano's quite literal delicate balance between fluid fragility and rigid stability is its entire appeal. [seiler via dvice] -
#gadgets
Chinese Build Piano, Violin Shaped Buildings to Stereotypical Chinese Kids' Horror
There's not much detail on why this Huainan building was built in the shape of a violin and a piano, but our guess is it's to shame every little Chinese kid into taking up the two stereotypical instruments they play: the piano and the violin. Of course, their instruments aren't made of glass and aren't 100 feet tall, but these weigh just as much as the real ones do on those little kids' souls. We can still taste the tears. [Ce via Spluch]
