No Big Thing

I heard a segment on NPR about this little device called the Buddha Machine: http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/fm3.html . It is the product of a group called FM3 out of China which plays 9 loops of ambient music based around chants. It is sort of the anti-iPod in that it doesn't allow anything to be downloaded to it, and it just has a volume control and a switch to choose between loops. I thought of my brother R immediately... the band's site is: http://www.fm3.com.cn .