KithKin Presents » sound http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/presents Stuff to make you smile by people who inspire Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:37:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 whistle while you wait http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/presents/index.php/courses/product-design-central-saint-martins/whistle-while-you-wait/ http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/presents/index.php/courses/product-design-central-saint-martins/whistle-while-you-wait/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:48:03 +0000 Celene McDowell http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/presents/?p=511 Tired of waiting for your tea to cool down? When you blow on your tea these ceramic cups will sing to you. The double walled design provides insulation and a crafty way of introducing sound as a fun diversion until your tea reaches its optimum drinking temperature.

These singing cups stemmed from my search to design objects that use sound in ways that can be beneficial to users. In this case to entertain them and prevent burnt tongues.

]]> http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/presents/index.php/courses/product-design-central-saint-martins/whistle-while-you-wait/feed/ 1 Sound of Light http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/presents/index.php/london-08/sound-of-light/ http://www.kith-kin.co.uk/presents/index.php/london-08/sound-of-light/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:17:23 +0000 Matthew Plummer-Fernandez http://kith-kin.co.uk/presents/?p=458 The 3D graph is a plot of volume, time and frequency and is divided into 50 layers; each layer corresponds to 20 milliseconds of the recording.

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