Coming in at 3rd place at the DESIGN 21-Pedal-to-the-Power competition is this bicycle contraption by Joseph Kim and Jinwook Hwang. The bicycle add-on is called “Sound From Wind” and it is a ceramic replacement for standard bicycle handlebars that turns your bike into a whistling beast.
The sound that comes from this prototype is said to sound like a flute and the neat thing is that you can adjust pitch by fiddling with keys on the handlebars.
I love this idea and I really wish it was in development because I’d seriously buy one. The only thing that sucks is that it’s made of ceramic, which obviously isn’t ready to hold up in my daily grind of biking habits.
Seriously though, how awesome do these things look? I wonder if it would produce sound if it were made of another kind of material (something more durable).
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They would work using a more durable material. Edge-tones can be formed of pretty much any material. Think flutes made of wood, metal, clay or aeolian strings such as the wind whistling through utility wires (phone, cable, power). The Chinese used to attach sound devices to kites and birds. http://www.windgallery.nl