Sunday, May 19, 2024
By Ryan Nill Your guitar is far too loud and no one really wants to hear your rendition of Freebird. Plug this into your guitar and along with a pair of headphones and save us all a little bit of...
By Jonathan Kimak The solar powered iPod is minutely closer to becoming a reality. Back in April of this year Apple filed a patent for solar cells on portable devices. What's interesting about this patent is that it describes having...
By David Ponce While it'll probably not help you sound anything like Jimmy Page, the Lightsnake USB, from Soundtech, will at least make it easier to get your musical ramblings on to your computer. It is an intelligent instrument-to-PC cable...
By David Ponce The M-stock 533 is a really nifty clock, albeit one with limited appeal to anyone outside of Japan. It's not that it really does anything revolutionary, or something that couldn't be accomplished differently, but we like...
By Ryan Nill Danish design company, Bang and Olufsen, have unleashed a new line of modular, portable speakers; the Beolab 3. Despite the exceedingly odd shape, the Beolab 3 is being marketed on extreme versatility and portability. They can handle...
By Dave Coulter The one thing I was always missing in my high school band experience was the percussive rapport of the Butterscotch Quail. Where was a podunk high school in Southern Oregon to find the grail of cowbells,...
By David Ponce Sony Design has been playing around with speakers, in this instance coming up with this column of glass named "Rin". column rising vertically from a stone floor, tapering into a translucent pole from which sound...
By Mac Harris Korean upstart Gamepark Holdings may actually have a shot at the big boys (Sony & Nintendo) with its new GPX2 "Personal Entertainment Player" portable everything console. While there aren't legions of game companies dumping millions...

By Scott Hirschheimer Snowboarding can now be done with the use of Bluetooth technology. Motorola and Burton have come together to create the very first Bluetooth winter jacket, the Audex Jacket series. Listening to music and talking on your cell...