Listen to the Future and the Past with the ChronoTune

29Apr11

Friends say that our warm, crackly 1950s valve radio sounds like listening through a time machine to stuff that happened in the past. Well, now a group of hackers have designed a radio for just that purpose. Rather than tuning into a frequency, the ChronoTune lets you tune into a particular year and listen to audio from that time. Sadly, it doesn’t actually work as a time machine, but is filled with mp3s taken from old news broadcasts and imagined events of the future. In a nice twist, if you tune to 2011, an FM receiver plays live radio.

See the ChronoTune in action and find out how it was made in this YouTube video.

Listen to the Future and the Past with the ChronoTune

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