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Strolling through the airport just got more exciting with the new musical floor
Recent Design Academy in Eindhoven graduate, Jeriël Bobbe, has recently come up with a new way to make spending time at the airport more fun. His new design is a combination between public art and community musical instrument as it is a piece of flooring with wooden slats designed to play music when you roll your suitcase over it. How deep the grooves in the wood are control the volume, while the width between the ribs affect the pitch.
"The tiles are being deployed in airports to compete with the horizontal escalators," explains Bobbe. "In a playful way, the traveler is triggered to walk by himself. Which way do you choose?"
Check out the video above to see a preview of what you can expect from Bobbe's creation.
Filed under: Arts and Culture, Video, Airports, News
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
me Jan 14th 2012 9:29AM
sounds annoying to me. like the rumble strips on the side of the highway.
Cheryl Byers Jan 14th 2012 10:14AM
He calls this music?????
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Paul Jan 14th 2012 10:47AM
this is dumb
Harry Hurt Jan 14th 2012 10:54AM
What happens when the place is crowded, and someone rolls over a square, likes the music, and stands there to listen to it? Excuse me, can I get by? Not yet. I'm listening to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.
Joe Papierz Jan 14th 2012 11:10AM
One of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard.
Kassie Jan 14th 2012 12:08PM
Not the brightest star in the sky, is he?!
Escalonz Jan 14th 2012 12:50PM
How 'bout musical toilets as some people occasionally do involuntarily? Very creative......................
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HELLRAISER Jan 14th 2012 1:18PM
That would be annoying as hell. I don't know who is more ignorant, the dude that invented this or the airports that bought it. Probally the latter.
Bonbon Jan 15th 2012 5:49AM
OMG! That is SOOOOO annoying. Better to put a keyboard (as in "Big) than this.
Robin Jan 14th 2012 2:36PM
Rumble strips. Is there a dangerous interesection or is he just going off the road? Who's paying for this noise?
Robin Jan 14th 2012 2:39PM
Rumble strips. Is there a dangerous intersection near or did he just run off the road? Who paid for this noise maker? Do they offer ear plugs? Might as well be on the runway.
Al Jan 14th 2012 3:05PM
The music would be lost in the din of the annoying and incessant announcements about TSA requirements....
Steve Jan 14th 2012 4:04PM
Thank-you readers!! This is just another example of electronic noise created to cover up other electronic noise - in the guise of soothing the poor traveller. There is enough noise and din in airports without adding more noise (music is noise if unwanted/unappreciated). We are inundated with noise everywhere we go (stores, gas stations as we pump our gas, Madonna at 5:30 AM blaring from the overhead speakers in airplanes as we enplane and deplane). Put a lid on it! Can I opt out of the extra fees we undoubtedly will be paying for this ridiculous idea?
Frontman Jan 16th 2012 4:52PM
Somewhere there is a travel department that specializes in ways to make air travel even more misreable than it is already. This has got to be one of their finest efforts!
tbirdman143 Jan 16th 2012 5:58PM
Just another example of the Huffing Post trying to pass off more crap as "news".
It's to the point I get agravated just clicking one the "news" stories, especially when the Huff Post changes the wording and gives you the same story on a different day.
Christina Hartman is the only thing that makes it worth even reading this crap...
deb Jan 17th 2012 5:12AM
And, here I thought we were going to see a musical floor like the oversized piano keys in the Tom Hanks movie, Big. And, personally, if I spent just ten seconds in an airport, and had to hear this guy's "musical invention", I'd go bonkers, and never go back to that airport.
ttrexxx Jan 17th 2012 5:19AM
really bad idea no kidding bad idea