UK News 14-08-2003 who: Industrial design student Sam James what: Launches underwater digital music player for swimmers where: CARDIFF when: This week snippet: "Called Soundwaves, his matchbox-sized device clips on to a pair of goggles and transmits MP3 music through the skull and into the inner ear using technology borrowed from hearing aids," explains The Telegraph. And in praise of youthful musical entrepeneurs elsewhere in the paper, Neil McCormick meets singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Joseph, who rallied his local schools to earn himself a Top 40 hit "without record company backing, radio play, or advertising". [... more]

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