Forget iTunes: Turn Your iPad Into a Hand-Cranked Music Box

The iPad ’s touchscreen presentation is mainly designed for use with your finger , but people have make other unique way to interact with it — styluses , display panel plot encounter pieces , and now these adorablehand - cranked interactive music boxescreated by design studentJoelle Aeschlimann .

The wooden boxes feature a pair of rubber stylus tips on the underside . These are notice by a customs app as they go around and make contact with the video display . And just like with a literal euphony box — at least , one that ’s not power by a spring mechanism — the speed at which the handle is turned straightaway affects how tight the music is flirt . To make it supererogatory charming , the lively animate interactional elements dance in time to the tune .

[ Joelle Aeschlimannviadesignboom ]