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Now You Can Listen to Music From Real Turban Seashells

BY Ingrid Longauerová TIMEApril 22, 2016 PRINT

Remember when you were a kid, you would listen to a seashell to hear the sound of the sea? 

This popular myth is becoming reality. Now, seashells play real music; and where else would the idea come from, but Japan?

(Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com)
(Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com)

It has been 90 years since radio came to the country, and to celebrate this event, Japanese radio station Bayfm78 created unique radio seashells.

It’s a nature and technology combined, since all shells were collected at Chiba prefecture’s seashore, known for its ‘sazae’ —turban shells.  The 100 harvested  shells were handcrafted with tiny radios, using a micro USB, speaker, and antenna. 

Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com
(Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com)

Thanks to its beautiful design, sazae radios are perfect combination of technology and nature to become unique decor for your home.

Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com
(Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com)

 

Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com
(Screenshot Bayfm78 via Spoon-Tamago.com)
Ingrid Longauerová
journalist/graphic designer
Ingrid Longauerová is a long time employee at the Epoch Media Group. She started working with The Epoch Times as a freelance journalist in 2007 before coming to New York and work in the Web Production department. She is currently a senior graphic designer for the Elite Magazine, a premier luxury lifestyle magazine for affluent Chinese in America produced by the EMG.
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