Spanish Design Student Creates Sleek New Spotify Gadget

Leave it to those ambitious, young grad students to show us the objects of our desire that we didn't even realize we desired. Thanks to Jordi Parra, an Interaction Design student at the Ume� Institute of Design in Sweden, we now have a futuristic new music player that lets you listen to Spotify from the comfort of your living room. (Only if your living room is in Europe, however, as Spotify is not yet available in the U.S.) At first glance, the player -- which Parra made as part of his final design project in collaboration with Spotify -- looks like a digital lovechild of Jonathan Ive and the brilliant Swedes at Ikea. Perhaps the coolest feature of the product's design is its inclusion of 192 LED nodes, which display volume levels, battery life, and Internet connectivity on the device's face. Not too shabby for a degree project!

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