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Gibson makes guitars and is probably not a company you would readily associate with consumer electronics, but these days everything seems to involve technology. The company has been producing tunable guitars for some time, but this year it has refreshed the lineup. While these instruments can still be tuned by hand, they can also auto-tune and the mechanism that handles that has
Sourcetone bills itself as a "music health" business. The company classifies music into 21 different areas designed to help improve the listeners mood, activity and overall health. This was setup through research done in collaboration with places like Harvard Medical Center which collected data from test groups of people in an effort to find out how different music made each
StantonDj which is now part of the Gibson family of products showed off the SCS 4DJ DJ Controller. Unlike many DJ system the SCS 4DJ works without any external devices. All the software and hardware needed is built-in. It works under the Unix operating system using proprietary software. There are four USB to connect hard drives, two on the outside and
Nuvo Tech is known for high-end, professionally installed home audio systems. Now the company is making a move to become more friendly to the masses with a wireless, consumer-based home audio system to compete with devices like Sonos. The new setup is not weak either -- it can simultaneously stream to up to 16 different locations. To do this, the
At this year's CES, Pure launched Jongo, the world's most affordable (and colourful) multi-room music system. Vicky tells Todd all about it. The Jongo range will shortly include a couple of wireless speakers and a hi-fi adaptor, all with both Bluetooth and wi-fi built-in. Music can be streamed using the Pure Connect app via wi-fi to any speaker in range
Amazon has introduced a brand new service called AutoRip. This is a very different way of looking at music storage. In short, it takes the CD that you purchased from Amazon and puts it into your Amazon Cloud Player. It also will make that album available on your PC or Mac, Kindle Fire, Android phone, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
NASA Johnson Style is an educational parody of Psy's Gangnam Style, produced by the students of NASA's Johnson Space Center. It's brilliant and deserves as much attention as the original. I'm sure this will be all over the web in a few hours, combining great visuals and intelligent parody with the hottest hit of 2012.