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Model 500, Rosie Lowe, Her Habits and more in our condensed look at the music we featured this week in Listen

Lobster Theremin for NTS Radio Freshly founded London imprint Lobster Theremin mixed it up for NTS Radio with live sets from Hungarian producer Imre Kiss and the enigmatic white noise-loving artist Snowbone. Rosie Lowe: How’d You Like It South London singer/songwriter Rosie Lowe released a kindred video for her deeply emotive tune “How’d You Like It,” utilizing the effects of reflective yarn to punctuate her …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

NASA launches Orion, Peter Marino gets real about retail, touchable holograms and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Eco-Friendly Air Conditioning A new material developed by Stanford University’s Dr Aaswath Raman is potentially going to revolutionize the way we keep cool. Made from ultra-thin layers of silicon dioxide, hafnium dioxide and silver (for reflectivity), the new material is able to radiate as much as 97% of sunlight back into the frigid vastness of outer-space while still remaining cool itself. When tested, a …

CH Edition: Vesper Vibrator Necklace

Our collaboration with Crave and AYK is a wearable, discreet object of pleasure

When we first discovered the slim, sophisticated Vesper Vibrator Necklace from San Francisco’s sensual toy innovator Crave, we found it both aesthetically pleasing and, with four operative speeds, quite effective. Exceptionally quiet and fully USB rechargeable (with a cable supplied), it’s highly functional. With a 24K gold-plated stainless steel body, it also doubles as a discreet, well-designed necklace. Altogether, the sexy item has an air …