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<\/div>SYNESTHETES<\/h2>
Tired: Listening to music. A mind-bending new suit straps onto your torso, ankles and wrists, then uses actuators to translate audio into vivid vibration. The result: a new way for everyone to experience music, according to its creators<\/a>. That’s especially exciting for people who have trouble hearing.<\/p> The Music: Not Impossible suit was created by design firm Not Impossible Labs and electronics manufacturing company Avnet. The suit can create sensations to go with pre-recorded music, or a “Vibrotactile DJ” can adjust the sensations in real time during a live music event.”<\/p> Billboard <\/em>writer Andy Hermann tried the suit out<\/a>, and it sounds like a trip.<\/p> “Sure enough, a pulse timed to a kickdrum throbs into my ankles and up through my legs,” he wrote. “Gradually, [the DJ] brings in other elements: the tap of a woodblock in my wrists, a bass line massaging my lower back, a harp tickling a melody across my chest.”<\/p> To show the suit off, Not Impossible and Avnet organized a performance this past weekend by the band Greta Van Fleet at the Life is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas. The company allowed attendees to don the suits. Mandy Harvey, a deaf musician who stole the show<\/a> on America’s Got Talent last year, talked about what the performance meant to her in a video<\/a> Avnet posted to Facebook.<\/p> “It was an unbelievable experience to have an entire audience group who are all experiencing the same thing at the same time,” she said. “For being a deaf person, showing up at a concert, that never happens. You’re always excluded.”<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Not Impossible Labs, Zappos Hope to Make Concerts More Accessible for the Deaf — and Cooler for Everyone<\/a> [Billboard]<\/p> More on accessible design: New Tech Allows Deaf People To Sense Sounds<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> The post Make Music A Full Body Experience With A “Vibro-Tactile” Suit<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the rest here: SYNESTHETES Tired: Listening to music. Wired: Feeling\u00a0 the music Continue reading
Wired: Feeling <\/em>the music.<\/p>THE FEELIES<\/h2>
MORE ACCESSIBLE<\/h2>
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