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Stanton SCS.3m touch-sensitive DJ mixer
Stanton have launched a new portable MIDI controller, using the layout of a traditional two-channel mixer but fully touch-sensitive. The Stanton SCS.3m Mixer Controller has touch-sensitive sliders, a...
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Vivace multitouch portable music studio concept
Music workstations have been around for many years, but we’re yet to see something as slick as this Vivace concept. Designed by Young-Shin Lee and Hae-Jin Jung, the Vivace is a clamshell touchscreen...
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Pilotfish Ondo modular, bendable musicphone concept
What the world needs are more concept devices, and thankfully here come Pilotfish with their Ondo to fill that gap. Best known for their work on the Synaptics Onyx interface, Pilotfish have now turned...
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Project Stella elliptical step sequencer
The great thing about musical hardware is that you can admire it as a musician, recognizing how useful it might be to create awesome new tracks, or merely as someone who likes buttons and knobs....
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Sony Rolly culled in US? Price slashed to $99
As my mother once told me, there’s only so long you can roll around on the floor, bleating and waving your arms around, before they put you out to pasture. The same seems to be true with the Sony...
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Nokia 5900 XpressMusic leaks?
Images claiming to show Nokia’s follow-up to the 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen cellphone, the Nokia 5900 XpressMusic, have leaked, and while there’s no confirmation that these are legitimate they...
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Airpiano: flail, and the music flails with you [Video]
We can’t all be Jean Michel Jarre, but thanks to the Arduino microprocessor we can flail our arms around and make music. Omer Yosher’s “Airpiano” is a long strip of motion sensors treated as, via the...
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Sony iPod/CD speaker-docks: WiFi DLNA streaming & LCD remote
Remember the Sony CMT-Z100iR iPod dock from all the way back in March? Well, it’s arrived and it brought a friend: the wirelessly-enabled NAS-Z200iR, shown here. The Z100iR is a basic iPod speaker...
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Steampunk analog synth: what brass etching was invented for
Steampunk continues to divide opinion, with some still entranced by etched brass, cogs and masterful repurposing of what would otherwise be thrown away as trash, while other think it a tired meme that...
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Line 6 Relay G30 Digital Wireless guitar system
Line 6 have announced a new wireless guitar system that, they claim, “redefines the wireless experience.” The Line 6 Relay G30 Digital Wireless System consists of a compact transmitter with standard...
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La Guitare à Crayon: Wacom meets acoustic guitar [Video]
An acoustic instrument bristling with buttons and knobs is always off to a good start, but Patrick Sébastien Coulombe’s “la Guitare à crayon” goes a few steps further into strangeness. Taking the body...
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Bose SoundLink wireless USB speaker system
Lifestyle audio firm Bose have announced a wireless music system, the SoundLink, which promises to free your audio from its PC or Mac prison. The setup consists of a battery-powered speaker, complete...
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Didiom music download/streaming system comes to BlackBerry
Back in November 2008 SlashGear heard talk of mobile music service Didiom bringing their hybrid download/streaming service to RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones. Turns out our tipster was correct: Didiom...
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Knoll Systems GSZ67 and GSZ44 eco-friendly multiroom amps
The “earth friendly” juggernaut continues, with even high-end home automation specialists feeling the need to slap some green on their spec sheets. You’d find it pretty hard to fault the range of amps...
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Hercules DJ Control MP3e2: bring Ibiza to your bedroom
The “sensation” of Pro DJ’ing is surely staying up to 4am, packed into a mixing booth before a sea of heaving, ketamine-fuelled bodies swinging their arms rapturously, while your ear-drums are slowly...
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Korg MicroSampler, WAVEDRUM and SV-1 launch
Korg have outed their latest product range, including the MicroSampler mini-synth shown here, a new digital percussion instrument, the WAVEDRUM, and a stage keyboard, the SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano. Of...
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Harmon Kardon GLA-55 glass computer speakers are horrendously expensive
Harmon Kardon have been known for putting out some unusually shaped speakers in the past, but we can’t help but think that the company have gone slightly too far with their GLA-55 system. A two-piece...
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Creative ZiiSOUND D5 iPod speaker dock eschews anything ZiiLABS
Looking for a guaranteed way to confuse press and customers alike, and dilute your new brand? Creative have a good example: they’ve called their latest iPod speaker dock the ZiiSound, which you’d...
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Technics 1200 & 1210 turntables not facing axe; 2009 vinyl sales up 35% on 2008
Excellent news, old school vinyl lovers. Despite earlier reports from Technics Australia suggesting that parent company Panasonic were planning to axe the Technics 1200 and 1210 decks in February...
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Pass Labs X260.5 Power Amp promises even less distortion
It can be hard getting your product to stand out at CES, so one good way of doing so is pretending it’s January 7th and pushing out a press release prematurely. Pass Labs are bringing their new X260.5...
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