The Hindu Business Line : It's that time of the year

Then we have a great music creation tool for you: the compact/box. This is a physical installation of up to five turntables, each containing 100 endless grooves for different musical instruments. All you have to do is to play around with different combinations of the grooves in each turntable to experiment and create something you like.

There is also a great online demo of how the installation works at http://www.compactbox.com/ that you can use to create your groove.

And you know what happens at most year-end parties: some friends and colleagues get a little high and want to talk - bosses want to confide; friends want to gossip; colleagues want to score some points. And all the time, while you really want to enjoy the party, you also want to hear out some of these messages lest they should come in handy the next year. How about a hat (http://www.miss-tal.com/coniglio-hat/) that lets people know that you are listening by exaggerating your attentiveness?

For the children among you who haven't heard of turntables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph), they are the devices that play vinyl records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_record); and if you don't know what vinyl records are, well, let's just say they are analog not-so-compact disks that contain music and pre-dated the cassette tape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape). But don't say you don't know how to party!

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