the researchers incorporate materials such as silver threads and steel fibers into the fabrics to give them electronic properties.

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under its surface, it has four small devices called magnetic attractors which can detect changes in magnetic fields and help generate the sounds.

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some of the sounds include swords, arrows, farm animals, no less than two separate witches, rowdy peasants, and an actual dragon.

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halldór úlfarsson’s musical instrument plays rich sounds as the pickup captures the vibrations of the strings and amplifies them.

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as visitors press the keys, a gooey liquid is brought to life, dancing hypnotically in sync with the chilling tunes.

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the body and neck of the electric guitar ukulele, or guitalele, were machined from a single piece of ash, and the top was 3D printed for the electronics.

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musician BERNTH builds his own acoustic harp guitar with 109 strings by piecing together different plucked string instruments.

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'I started to experiment with audiovisual contraptions combining traditional craftsmanship with modern technology, and found my niche,' hultén tells designboom.

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yamaha design laboratory dissects the insides of its grand concert piano CFX, lines up each of the 8,000 parts, and photographs them for ‘the art of sound’.

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arvind sanjeev's 'spin' breaks down the barriers between human and machine creativity.

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