Leon Theremin’s Musical Instrument Can Be Played Without Being Touched
Today is, thanks to a long-ago calendar change, one of two birthdays in 1896 of Leon Theremin. He invented a very unusual musical instrument that you play without touching it.
The Keyboard Made From Plants
A Spanish tech startup called Bioo has built an installation in which plants serve as the keys of a kind of "green piano."
The Cold Tube Saves Energy By Cooling Us, Not Our Rooms
The Cold Tube cools people off, similar to air conditioning, but using half the energy. Which sounds pretty cool.
A Song That Takes 639 Years To Play Just Had A Chord Change
John Cage once wrote a score with the instructions that it be played "As Slow As Possible." So that's what an organ is doing in Germany, for more than 600 years.
The Oomphalapompatronium Is An Instrument That Lives Up To Its Unusual Name
What's In A Name Week continues with a look at the Oomphalapompatronium, a creation of Boston-area musician, composer and inventor Len Solomon. And it definitely fits the name.
Meet The Fake Beatles
And now for the youngsters, those fine young men from Florida, the fake Beatles!
When Americans Could Mail Their Children From Place To Place
It was on this day in 1914 a family in Grangeville, Idaho sent a four year old through the mail to her grandmother in Lewiston, 73 miles away. And she wasn’t the only kid to travel this way.