Witte_Limo pointed us to an article at the BCC news about park benches with mp3 support. Several benches in public places in England have been fitted with MP3 audio players. The power comes from solar panels. Unfortunately you can't insert your own mp3 CD's but if you plug your headphone you can listen to specially written plays and stories relevant to the benches location
As with all good tales there are two sides to the stories. |
On the left hand side of the bench listeners can plug into episodes from the lives of a selection of imaginary Barrow residents.
On the right-hand side of the bench a second episode, in the form of a short story or poem, complements or elaborates on the theme or characters featured on the other side.
Each story lasts between five and 10 minutes.
"By forcing people to sit in a particular position for a certain length of time makes them look at their environment in a different way," said designer Mil Stricevic.
Quite a funny story. Wonder how long these benches will work. In the article they say that so far the only problem has been chewing gum put over the headphone socket
Source: bbc
