Technology Ticks

This MP3 player, designed by Kang Min-Kyung, Kim Tae-Seung and Og Jeong-Min, uses a tap-and-water metaphor to represent the music player and music.

The metaphor works as you can see from the photo.

But what's really really cool is that the designers took the tap-and-water thing further. You can start/stop/pause the music by "kinking" the line.

From Yanko, "The supply of water stops whether the hose are pressed. If pressure is applied by hand to the earphone line as capacitance technology, the music temporarily stops. And when you relinquish your hold of the earphone line, the music starts again."

Crazy, funky, sexy music player. But how does capacitance technology work in this case? All I know is that if I kink my wires too much, it'll just die on me.

Source: "Music Flow" MP3 by Min-Kyung Kang, Tae-Seung Kim, & Jeong-Min Og (Yanko Design)