The format wars are largely a thing of the past, and thank god for that. Now we’re less concerned about the shape or size of the piece of plastic we insert into drives with complex moving parts, and more concerned with moving bits and bytes around the web onto servers and hard drives. The one format that has always seemed immune from progress though is vinyl. Even audiophiles can’t explain pop culture’s ongoing love affair with tired old plastic discs, but the attraction remains nonetheless. Jeff Mills knows you shouldn’t have to choose. His latest music release is a double-sided CD and vinyl hybrid,…

Forget going for a jog while listening to your iPod. Create your own music right at home with the Vinyl Workout. Designer Theo Watson created the Vinyl Workout for the inaugural Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival. The Vinyl Workout is an interactive workout that turns your floor into a digital record player. By projecting a large record player on the floor that is big enough to walk on, the user can control it by running around on the surface. The system responds to the pace and direction that the runner is going and slow down when you walk around slowly. The record plays backwards or rewinds when…

How many times have you been sitting at a Starbucks and, looking over at your fellow coffee-shop customers, been really jealous at the guy with the awesome Transformers sticker on his Macbook? Well, thanks to new start-up StickerYou, you too can now paste your meticulously crafted, industrially designed computer with gaudy stickers. The service, which launched today, allows users to create high-quality vinyl stickers from the comfort of their own home, simply by using StickerYou’s intuitive system. You can use their artwork or your own, and interesting, you can create stickers in any shape…