Via Metro, the ultimate iPod Accesory, the Audi-Oh.. It plugs into the iPod and translates the musical rythms into a variable vibration pattern; what you do with it is up to you, but the website subtly explains the reasons for it. It appears to have been around for nearly a year, must have missed it in John Lewis.

The BBC has a lovely article about a piece of digital art that can be found at Tingrith Fisheries. Fish in the lake at the fishery are tracked hydrophonically and their movements translated into a soundscape and an animated representation of the fishes’ movements. How is this done? The fish are “slit open and miniature bio-acoustic tags are inserted into their bodies. The fish are then stitched up, woken up and returned to the lake where they emit a tiny acoustic signal every two seconds. ” Lovely. Just the type of detail you want to know.

The article is also notable for me in that its the first one I’ve seen where there is the option to download an audiofile and subscibe to the RSS feed for the podcasts, as part of the BBC Download Trial

The BBC launch a new series next week about Britain’s coastline. To accompany this, they are releasing guided tours to 39 villages and towns around the coast. The tours come in 3 different formats. The first, a straightforward leaflet which can be ordered. Seocndly, there will be downloadable audio files, to play on your favourite player of MP3s. And finally there are walks delivered via your mobile phone for 12 of them. In this case, the towns have had sings put up around various points with a call number on it. Dial the number and a recorded talk gets played. When you’ve finished and you hang up, the directions to the next point in the trail are texted to you, so you don’t get lost. Great for those who have a phone but have not yet braved the idea of putting files on portable devices.

There are a few articles like this one in the paper’s today about Sharp’s new DualView TVs, which uses LCD displays to allow people sitting at different angles to the TV to see different images, different programmes or different views of games. You could htink this is a good idea. But the one thing I noticed – in none of the articles I have seen do they mention how they intend to manage the sound. Do they expect people to wear headphones? One of the views on the story is that it will reduce arguments about who watches what – so it appears to do this by making sure they can’t hear each other and never talk. A step forward for family relationships.