Instructables member Jade Pullen made this amazing globe that turns on and off live radio broadcasts around the world based on how the globe is physically oriented. It's a whole world filled with many different voices available with the flick of a finger. Sometimes, Pullen writes, the experience of using RadioGlobe is quite jarring:
Part of the magic is the the tension between familiarity and the unfamiliarity: It's both shocking how many radio stations play Western pop music, but then with a turn of the jog wheel, you find an alternatives (in the same location) - and you navigate from Boosh FM's Drum & Bass, to listening to a native dialect of New Zealand. [...]
News is another revelation - it's all too easy to lapse into thinking my 'international' news is 'the benchmark'. I found myself listening to the same global updates on COVID-19, but rather than my usual BBC News, I heard a local DJ discussing it in a chat radio station in South Africa - framing things in, frankly, a more gritty take... It's certainly different to what I'm used to, and that's the point.
-via Laughing Squid
Zoom around the world. Listen to different music in different languages. Listen to English accents in Ireland and Scotland.