23 June 2013

A Vinyl Record That You Can Play With Your Smartphone

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Promo CDs are usually thrown out by its recipients—as such, to strategically showcase music, Germany-based record label Kontor decided to embark on a ‘fresh’ approach with ‘old school’ vinyls.



Called ‘The Office Turntable’, Kontor created real vinyls with a faux record player.



To play the vinyls, users had to place the record on the turntable’s ‘platter’, and use their smartphones to scan the cleverly-positioned QR-codes that allowed them to listen to the music.



An integration of analog and digital devices—like a real vinyl turntable, users could use their smartphone to change tracks by moving the tonearm to various parts of the record.





































































[via Creative Bloq]