Tag Archives: music

Screw You iTunes: Radiohead offers DRM-free boxset

EMI and Radiohead are showing that you don’t need a powerhouse like iTunes to get yourself some attention. Always a band known to fight the power, Radiohead is planning on releasing a DRM-free boxset featuring all of their full length albums from 1993-2007, available for CD and digital download, as well as a special USB wave file edition, all of ...

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RoboCard Keeps CDs Safe and Your Butthole Clean

With his tin toy robot look and corrugated cardboard body, the RoboCard is willing and ready to do the extremely bizarre task for which he was created. Believe it or not, RoboCard will hold and protect up to 14 CDs and a roll of extra toilet paper “for any spill, leak, drip, drop, or other emergency.” At W8.7″ x D6.3″ ...

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Wii Music Revealed: 40 Instruments To Chose From

� Nintendo has finally announced their contribution to the ever-growing musical game niche with Wii Music (awesome name, right?). Wii Music will feature 40 instruments to choose from, and you and up to three of your friends can control an entire band or orchestra. Players will use the Nunchucks and Wiimote to control the musicians with this possible Guitar Hero ...

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Urban Fidelity Speakers Feature 360 Degrees of Sound

Those little orbs or “planets” on the top of these new Urban Fidelity Speakers aren’t just for looks, they are a revolutionary technology aimed at producing 360 degrees of sound. In addition to the “planets,” Designer Markus Duevel has incorporated a high efficiency tweeter that combines with the sphere to create a sonic image that is “massively larger than any ...

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Musical Duet Table for sweet, sweet xylophone love

Just like Dick Clark said, “Music is the soundtrack to our lives.” The Musical Duet table joins furniture design and musical instrumentation in a xylophone for two. You and your loved one can play brain-melting xylophone solos until your hearts content. There are 5 different musical tables to choose from if a typical xylophone doesn’t tickle your fancy. The tables ...

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Ngai Luen Electric Guitar-shaped CD Player

Ngai Luen presented its Guitar-shaped CD Player at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2007. What could possibly be the function of a Guitar-shaped CD Player? Two words: Nabbing chicks. The ladies love music, and they sure as hell love guys who play guitar. And us geeks need all the aid props we can get. The CD Player has speakers integrated ...

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DIY: Flash memory in (almost) any iPod

Why Apple hasn’t gotten with the program and jumped on to the flash memory train yet is beyond us. Why give themselves the extra trouble of a drive with moving parts? This hack shows you how to install flash memory into almost any iPod. Make sure you back up all your music BEFORE you start. Sadly, there are no directions ...

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Nokia 5700 3G swivel music phone is for real

Two months ago we saw a design mock-up of a funny swivel phone from Nokia, the tension built up when a source showed us a leaked marketing picture. This was proven to be legit at the company’s announcement this morning, and as we were told, the funky device in the early pictures was indeed the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic phone. What ...

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Music floating in your bubble bath: flat-panel speaker MP3 player

Victor-JVC Japan is introducing a new MP3 player to their “health and healing” line of products, what’s so unconventional about this funny looking audio player is that it actually floats in your tub and plays music right next to your rubber duck duck. Wouldn’t water get into those holes? Good question, and Victor-JVC has it solved by using a NXT ...

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Lightcast yourself a light show

The days of incense and candles are behind us, thank goodness. The future of mood enhancing music lighting is Lightcast. Lightcast produces a mesmerizing light show on walls and ceilings that follows along with your favorite music, producing an out of this world mood setter. Using SmartBeat technology, Lightcast can “hear” the music you play and make educated light movements ...

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