We have already seen Lennon’s Rickenbacker 325 and Harrison’s Gretsch Duo Jet, but today it’s Paul McCartney’s turn with the Höfner bass.
Sony Ericsson’s newest Walkman mobile phone is targeting the youth, not only by photographing the gadget with skateboards, but also by highlighting the phone’s built-in stereo speakers—with an emphasis on high quality bass.
YouTube may be full of robots, but few as charming as this little drummer bot. Armed with a rudimentary pill-jar plastic drum and a beep-bop-boop synthesiser, he somehow gets quite the groove on.
If you like your home theatre seats to rumble, chances are you’re heard of ButtKicker, the sort of subwoofer for you butt that adds a tactile component to movies and games. Now the company is announcing a new, moderately more affordable wireless bundle, Priced at $US300, you get one complete Buttkicker setup (works on one chair/couch) along with a wireless transmitter/receiver. You’ll still have to make due with a few boxes sitting on your floor, but at least you won’t have to hide the wire run. Look for it at Amazon starting Black Friday.
We’ve bitched about the quality of Apple’s included earphones enough here on Giz for you to recite the importance of upgrading your headphones in your sleep. Well from the looks of it, the latest release from Sennheiser is about to blow the competition away, with a pair that will let you dictate the level of bass you want by turning a dial on the earphone. Not only that, but the cables in the new IE lineup are reinforced with Kevlar, giving you an ever so much slighter chance of surviving a gunshot wound when someone tries to mug you for your new headphones. Okay, that’s a lie, but it does mean your earphones are likely to survive being wrenched out of your ears when the cable catches on a door handle.
Mad Catz has an entire set of Rock Band instruments coming next week, all with some weird features that aren’t on the official Harmonix ones. Rock Band Mods found that there’s the wired bass guitar, a wired regular guitar, wired microphone, portable drum kit and premium wired drums. Hit the jump to see details on these, which looks like they solve some of the small issues we’ve been having with our own set.
I see this funkylicious bass guitar made out of LEGO and I’m all like waka-waka-waka-waka-waka and then I’m like wonk-waka-wonk-waka-wonk-wham-wham and my head explodes imagining Les Claypool playing it while sailing on a sea of cheese. The bass is real, with a Jazz Bass neck. Its creator says that it “sounds a lot like Flea’s bass from the Chilli Peppers,” which will probably make Frucci want to buy it, and learn to play. And then we will form a band, with myself playing the amazing Angel Sword guitar and Jason playing drums. And we will call it Bricky Stardust and the Amazing Dildos from Mars. Or something like that. [eBay - Thanks Spiders]
