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For those that don't get this: if you visit the site on a mobile device, you get a keyboard. If you press one of the keys, you will create a sound on the (desktop) page.

It's reasonably instant, so you find out which sound was yours.

They also map the color from the device to the color of the hexagon that appears.

Thanks for the explanation. I honestly did not get it.

Using iOS7. I don't see any keyboard. Am rather confused.

It should just be 6 horizontal blue bars. Not the QWERTY keyboard.

Nexus 4 with cm. No sound

Also, isn't it customary to put "(audio)" in links that play sound when you open them? I just put my baby to bed!

Audio should never load automatically on a website, anyway. It is annoying and Mozilla should know better.

It's a "game" so it's acceptable.

But how is someone supposed to know until they get there?

Unless it is a restaurant. Then it seems to be ok /s.

Obligatory article on it:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/08/...

Ok, I don't get it and the (i)nformation doesn't help. Can someone explain please?

They say (can't seem to be able copy/paste it) "visit the site with your mobile device" at the top, so I assume it's only targeted at mobile users, or something.

When I went there with my iPhone it said to got there with my desktop computer...

    Flip to page 121.
    <flips to page 121>
    Flip to page 34.
    <flips to page 34>
    Flip to page 121.

Very cool how it's almost instantaneous. The sound is a bit raspy though, especially with many notes playing at once (FF 27 on Linux).

Would have been handy to know this was going to start playing sound with no mute button or warning.

They should have given the ability to stop the rotation at a desired place, so that I could check whether on pressing the mobile keyboard button a sound comes up from my geographical location.

The "globe" is very obviously not Earth, so it's unlikely they'd bother to draw the sound coming from any particular place on it.

I can't distinguish any change in the sound when I tap the purple keys. How do I know it works?

No sound in desktop Safari 6.0.5

Awesome. So, how's it work? Is it that, every time someone presses a key on the mobile version's keyboard, it fixes a memory leak bug in Firefox?

No.

lame.

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