Scarf with electrically operated massager

Scarf with electrically operated massager United States Patent 6537235, by Connor, Clara (Fountain Valley, CA, US) and Busto, Ernest J. (Cypress, CA, US), March 2003.

A combination massager and scarf assembly having a number of electrical motors secured in a flexible casing, which flexible casing is removably secured in the interior of the scarf. The scarf is wrapped around the flexible casing and the motors in the casing are electrically connected to a control box having an A.C. or D.C. power supply to actuate the electrical motors. The control box includes a knob to regulate the speed of vibration of the motors.

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Do you prefer to listen to sounds or to the relationship between two or more sounds? That is the question even though it may not be exclusive ...

A new addition on ubu, Four American Composers, Directed by Peter Greenaway.

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Graphic design magazines for download

From Blanket magazine

I found on Etienne Mineur's blog an inspiring web site that regroups free&downloadable magazines in .pdf format. Inspiring for its distribution format and also its content. The magazines propose illustrations, graphic design, photography, sometimes articles.

I have selected a few among the a lot i looked at:

LAB MAG includes MIT visual art :)

The Royal Magazine

Cobalt Revolter fashion & stars

Blanket

Candy Culture

Wall Spankers B&W graphics

Poor designers Poor but kewl

Multi Link

Cru-a Awesome urban/graffiti collection

Grafikal

Stirato Includes an illustrated tarots set

Vernissage TV Interviews with artists

DIF MAG fashion

pornoffiti funny fonts

Arriba A bit of everything

Lab Zine Nice mix between graphics & articles

cuemix interviews with DJ's about their music process

Pictre-mag If you use flickr and a camera, this is the way to see your pictures in a nice layout printed format magazine!