The Nomadic Sound System

Wearable wireless speakers propose go-anywhere surround sound

This year’s Royal College of Art summer showcase includes a wireless and wearable sound system for mobile musical performances. Dubbed “The Nomadic Sound System,” the project is the brainchild of Benjamin Newman—a member of RCA’s atypical study group Platform 13. Comprised of nine speakers—three bass, four middle and two treble—each component looks like a marching band instrument, enabling the same freedom of movement and configuration. …

It’ll Be Better

Stream Francis and the Lights' new album from a pioneering HTML5 site

The world’s first HTML5 embeddable album, Francis and the Lights’ It’ll Be Better site simplifies the music listening process for Apple’s new less Flash-friendly digital world. Developed by Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette, he created it specifically to play on the iPad and new iPhone 4, which otherwise can’t stream most music because of the operating system’s lack of Flash support. And, with this new site …

CH iPad Giveaway Numbers 11 and 12

Subscribe to CH Daily and take the quiz to win an iPad and more

This is it! We’re giving away our last two iPads. Next Monday, 5 July 2010, we will announce the final two winners in our celebration for our new Cool Hunting iPad app sponsored by Cadillac. Both winners will receive an awesome little package consisting of an iPad, custom Speck cover, keyboard dock, and a camera connector kit. If you already get our daily newsletter, you …