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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.
Pringles are running a Pringles Tree competition in December and each day you can open a virtual Pringles can to reveal the prize within. The prizes are inexpensive but there seems to be a good chance of winning as I've picked up a Pringles Speaker and a voucher for 7digital already. Other prizes include on-line games and receipes. The Pringles Speaker
Korg has something that I think every musician can use. It's called the MicroStation. It solves a lot of the problems that many musicians face when they are trying to create and record music at home, (or outside of a professional music studio). The MicroStation has a compact 61-key Natural Touch Mini-Keyboard that is way more portable than a standard
Concrete has always been a popular product, but it's not what you think of for display purposes - marble and solid wood come more readily to mind. Increasingly, designers are turning to this relatively cheap material with some very attractive polished concrete artifacts and recently I saw a lovely kitchen worktop in the material. In this mode there is Thorax
I own a lot of music. Well, the real truth is that it’s mine and that of my wife and kids, but all told it adds up to just over 95 GB. The music collection started off with albums and cassettes when I was a kid, but later on those were all replaced by CD, and I traded in the
Custom-fit earbuds and headphones can be scarily expensive because the price often includes high quality sound drivers as well as the custom moulding. Advanced MP3 Players have come up with a product that solves this problem by adding a molding to already-owned earbuds - the Sharkfin Self-Molding Earbuds. Inside the somewhat Spock-esque package are two small pots of self-molding silicone that
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