"It freed me from the stereotype of how a CD case is presented, " he says.

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He works with low level electronics and he's about to release the 1-bit Symphony on a single microchip, housed in a CD case.

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By replacing the opaque plastic "tray" inside the CD case with clear material, for example, Shindo has been able to utilize even that tiny space.

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He turns artwork 90 degrees on its side so that it is best viewed with the opening of the CD case at the base of the picture.

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My first trip overseas was that same year, and of course that album was in my CD travel case (1998, people: when you have 24 slots for music to listen to for a week, you choose carefully).

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The Witcher series works for the same reason, although in this case CD Red was working with a world that had already been created for them to a large degree.

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The music industry provides a salutary lesson in the dangers of building a business around charging too much for too-large bundles of content (in its case, CD albums).

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In this case, they would get a CD or a download of the album.

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The title of this CD is called "The Pecan Tree" because the pecan tree, which in his case, he was from East Texas, which is also where my family is from.

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In this case, you might take whatever you have saved up right now and buy a five year CD.

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