Feast your eyes on the Turnstyle. For those of you born after 1985, it plays something called Vinyl Records, essentially big black CD’s (Look it up on Wikipedia or something). For those of you born prior to 1985, you know what I’m talking about here.

Yes, this is in fact a turntable, a record player, a phonograph. It’s a minimalist one at that. This very well designed turntable stripped everything away but the bare essentials. It contains:

  • The motor to spin the record.
  • The needle to read the music imprinted on the record.
  • The speaker to output the music.
  • And the controls to turn it on/off, etc.

This beautifully designed piece was created by R.D. Silva.

My hat is off to you Silva. Very well done.

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If you think it’s cool, do Silva a favor and click on the “Behance” source link below. At the bottom of the same photos is a “Click here to Appreciate it” button. Click that button. While you’re there check out Silva’s other design projects the cook-top for the blind is pretty cool too.

Source: Behance, Engadget