A music box possesses a certain magic that is unnoticeable. Just turn the key once, and it will spread the delicate and ...

Each day is marked out with a note to keep the beat, then the deaths come, sometimes in clusters of notes, other times in rising and falling scales. This is the sound of the pandemic in Switzerland, ...

Back in mid-2020, a project out of Taiwan launched on Indiegogo to produce a gorgeous little mechanical music box that could play tunes loaded in using a smartphone app. Now its makers are aiming for ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. With a regular music box, a rotating cylinder covered in pins strikes the tuned teeth of a steel comb. The ...

The light twinkle of an old-fashioned cylinder music box evokes many things: nostalgia, childhood memories, sometimes even horror (they are a trope in scary movie soundtracks). Most music boxes play ...