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MUSIC
Now
Playing—
On Your
Computer
Ear Candy
The Guild
Sound Collars
Could Help Deaf
Music Lovers
German designer
to the hearing-impaired with his
music collar that lets
users feel music
rather than hear it.
Bet ween Two Ferns
Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images (boxers); Redferns/Getty
Images (Robyn); Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images (Cobain)
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Interactive, 3-D
Music Videos Put
Fans in Charge
Swedish pop singer
Robyn says hej då to
stagnant videos in
favor of a 3-D Web
site that allows fans
to send Twitter posts
zipping across the
screen, mid-song.
ng Taps Music Bi
o Battle Google t
Bing’s rollout of
entertainment features—music, games,
video—continues the
search engine’s fight
to meet Google in
market share by
keeping users on the
site instead of sending
them away to i Tunes,
Hulu, and others.
Designers
Envision Cobain-
nes Plays u i T Keeps r fo The desktop com- puter is still the platform of choice for music management, and i Tunes is still the favorite music-selling program—with 28% of the U.S. market, it beat the runner-up, Nokia Music Store (22%).
R Music’s iPhone P N
p Rocks p A
NPR brings its high-quality bounty of
beats to the iPhone,
taking advantage of
the device’s multi-tasking to keep the
music pumping
even when it’s in the
background.
