Phonograph CD Player

The Phonograph CD Player has been around for a while, but I had never seen it before. In these days most music we play cannot even be touched anymore, and the CD is slowly becoming obsolete. This Phonograph CD player created by Yong Jieyu & Ama Xue Hong Bin brings us back to the world of vinyl and the phonograph.

The player is made from the insides of a portable CD player. The CD has to be put on the player upside down, so the laser on the ‘tone arm’ can access it and it moves fron the inside out. This is what the player looks like with no disk: 

Found on Yanko Design

Comments

[Ed Devane]

ingenious! I wonder is there an increased chance of laser radiation problems due to the exposed laser though...

[Bloof]

beautiful!!

[John Roach]

Nice!
I am a sound artist and this reminds me a BIT of a project I did in which I played CDs on a record player. You can see it here:
http://vimeo.com/1052179
Splendid blog too by the way. Many thanks.