FIRST people shouted into cellphones and wrecked the tranquillity of solitary spots and the peace of bus rides. Then came jump-out-of-your-skin polyphonic ringtones, followed by endless music played through the phones’ tinny speakers.
People can now make music together just by waving their phones around (see “Turn your mobile phone into an air guitar”). Shaking one taps out a drum rhythm, while brandishing a second plays guitar and yet another a bass line. A wireless “conductor” turns their gestures into something tuneful.
Fuddy-duddies will moan that this is yet more disruption. But surely anything that pops the self-absorbed cellphone…
