Bmi

Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples

1:30AM September 18, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Dear music industry: Go f–k yourself. More »


Honda Asimo Creators Turning Your Brain into the Ultimate Robot Controller

3:45PM March 31, 2009 | Elaine Chow

You know what I think the worst thing about having a robot army is? You have to press buttons. It’s much more satisfying to get every automaton to do your bidding by just thinking it.

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Gadgets

SanDisk Releases $US20 slotMusic Player, Dozens of SD Card Albums

8:56PM October 15, 2008 | John Herrman

SanDisk’s grand plan to revolutionise the music industry: selling individual albums preloaded onto SD cards, made by them, to be played on SD card players, made by them. The concept is definitely attractive in some ways. The tracks are 320Kbps, DRM-free MP3 files, the SD cards are reusable and the screenless slotMusic players costs next to nothing. Major label albums are priced at a competitive $US15, and can be played without the need for transfer from a computer, though you can load other SD cards with up to 16GB of music and play them, too.

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