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The Party Never Stops with the CataCombo Sound System-Equipped Coffin
Living Art – Museum Masterpieces Painted on Human Bodies
Shine on the Dance Floor with Remote-Controlled LED Club Clothes

The Party Never Stops with the CataCombo Sound System-Equipped Coffin

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:36 AM PST

Embrace your passion for music in this life or the next with the CataCoffin – a unique coffin equipped with a high-quality sound system that will keep you rocking six feet under. An afterlife of partying awaits.

Do you want to keep in touch with the latest trends in music, even after death? It seems impossible, I know, but Swedish company Pause has just turned your weird dream into a reality. Introducing the CataCombo sound system, an original solution that will help you take your passion for music to the grave, literally. The unique sound installation comes incorporated in a high quality coffin with “godlike comfort and angelic interior”, and features a pair of two-way speakers, tweeters, a custom-built 2.1 amplifier and “a divine 8-inch subwoofer fine tuned to the coffin’s unique interior acoustics”. And it gets better – the CataCoffin comes with matching CataTomb tombstone that has a built-in upgradable music server. Powered by a 2.5 GHz Intel processor, this unique piece of technology allows your friends and family to update your playlist through the Spotify music service, with the help of 4G connectivity. The tombstone also has a a 7-inch LCD that displays what song is currently playing inside the coffin. It’s safe to say CataCombo can take anything the afterlife throws at it.

I’m sure audiophile vampires are excited about the CataCoffin, but while Pause says the CataTomb supplies the power to the coffin six feet under, it’s not yet clear how the tombstone itself will get the necessary electricity. Solar panels or a small wind turbine work in theory, but I don’t know how many cemeteries will allow that. But, that’s just a small hurdle for people who can afford to pay €23,500 ($31,500) for this musical coffin.

I myself won’t be getting the CataCoffin. I just couldn’t decide if I want Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven playing on a loop. But if you’re interested and aren’t too spooked by lying down in a coffin before your time comes, you can drop by the Pause headquarters in Stockholm for a product demonstration.

via Gizmag

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Living Art – Museum Masterpieces Painted on Human Bodies

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:35 AM PST

Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector have found an ingenious way to combine their passion for 19th century art with modern body-painting. The artistic duo recreate classic paintings from museums around the world on to Chadwick’s body, in a special art collection aptly named “Museum Anatomy“.

We’ve featured some pretty impressive example of body-painting in the past, but nothing like what Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector create. The two artists from Austin, Texas, contact museums across the world, asking for permission to access and photograph their 19th century paintings. According to Peta Pixel, they’re always looking specifically for works that haven’t been exhibited in the last 50 years (if ever). After they’ve found a painting they would like to recreate, they either take a photo of it, or ask the museum to send them a professional documentation. Then the real work begins – repainting the artwork on Chadwick’s body. They start by projecting an image of it on to his body, while he tries different positions until they find the perfect pose. Once that’s done with, Laura spends between 8-15 hours in one sitting trying to reproduce every detail, using special-effects makeup. But the painstaking process yields some mind-blowing results.

“The recreated paintings of these historic portraits recapture the subjects in their own moment in history. The resulting photographs reveal a unification of art combining antiquity, history and technology in a contemporary context,” Gray and Spector say about their Museum Anatomy.

Photos © Chadwick Gray & Laura Spector

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Shine on the Dance Floor with Remote-Controlled LED Club Clothes

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 01:49 AM PST

If you’re looking to attract attention when you hit the club on a Saturday night, there are better ways to do it than showing off your funky dance moves. You’re much better off wearing some remote-controlled LED clothes like the ones sold by Chinavasion. You’ll be literally shinning on the dance floor.

The "Senorita" LED mini skirt and the “Maria” LED Boob Tube are the latest in club fashion, and according to maker Chinavasion, “the only way to stand out and light up the dance floor.” Both garments come with hundreds of small LEDs that light up in in shades of red, green, and blue or white, at the simple touch of a button. That’s right, these shiny clothes come with remote controls that allow the wearer to change both the color of the LEDs and the luminous modes ( monochrome, shade, strobe, flash and smooth), depending on what track they’re grooving to. The battery that fits in a special pocket on the inside of the clothes last up to 8 hours, according to the manufacturer, so you’re more likely to run out of energy before your clothes do. Chinavasion says its LED mini skirt and tube top are great “for any geek to give to his girl (Real or imaginary) or for any girl wanting a change on the light side but will be appreciated by them wanting something different for hen nights and raves.”

But lighting up the club in shiny clothes doesn’t come cheap. Chinavasion sells the Senorita LED mini skirt for $160, and the Maria tube top for $170. As a set they’ll put a $330 dent in your budget, but you can also get them separately.