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Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
2:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Sarah Palin’s autographed gadgetry…A DJ Mixer for dual iPhones…New York City coffeeshops crack down on WiFi leechers (like me, whoops)…Fully robotic kitchen is so pretty you’ll barely care when it kills you… More »
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1:00PM Nick Broughall | If you’ve been saving your pennies for the latest and greatest Pioneer home entertainment products, including their awesome Kuro plasmas, you’ll probably need to save a bit longer. The company has just announced via press release that the weak Australian dollar has forced them to increase the RRP on their home entertainment range, effective immediately. More »
Pioneer Also Jacking up Prices to Compensate For Weak Aussie Dollar
1:00PM Nick Broughall | If you’ve been saving your pennies for the latest and greatest Pioneer home entertainment products, including their awesome Kuro plasmas, you’ll probably need to save a bit longer. The company has just announced via press release that the weak Australian dollar has forced them to increase the RRP on their home entertainment range, effective immediately. More »
Gadgets
Hello Kitty DJ Speaker Brings Out the Disco Pussycat Lover In You
6:00AM Jesus Diaz | Who else would spend US$25 in a Hello Kitty Action DJ Speaker–which moves pretending she’s a DJ at the rhythm of the music played in your digital audio player–but a twisted disco pussy lover with probably too much Jack Daniel’s running through his veins and listening to ABBA right now?
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Sony Xross Fade Dual iPod DJ Dock Is Wiggity Wack
12:30PM Benny Goldman | The US$500 Xross Fade DJ system is Sony’s hard-to-pronounce dual iPod dock kit for mixing songs. It may have some rad-looking bass reflex speakers and dual subwoofers, but it’s unfortunately gimped as far as DJ features go—you can cue and crossfade between songs, a technology straight outta 2005 and something you could do on a PC with moderate iTunes skills. There are also some presumably lame-arse drum beats you can lay on top of your tracks to spice them up, but not much more. Seriously Sony, what gives? DJing is just no fun without some “wikki wikki”. Press release down below. [Sony] More »
Gadgets
Art Lebedev’s ‘Plastinkus’ Lets You Jam With Wallet-Sized Scratch Sessions
8:40AM Sean Fallon | There are a number of products out there that allow aspiring DJs to engage in mobile scratch sessions (like the recently released Mixmeister application for the iPhone), but Art Lebedev’s new Plastinkus scratch pad claims to deliver a sound that is close to the real thing on a disk that you can fit comfortably in your wallet. Yeah, its a pretty frivolous thing to waste your money on–but at least it won’t break the bank at around US$4 a pop. [Art Lebedev via Pocket-Lint] More »
Gadgets
ATTIGO Touchscreen Turntable Waves Bye Bye to Grooves, Scratching
11:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | Live DJ-ing takes a step further into the 21st Century with this invention which lets DJ’s view, cut, grab, loop and mix tracks by doing live waveform editing on a twin touchscreen “turntable.” Invented by UK student Scott Hobbs as part of his innovative product design course, ATTIGO is about the same size as a conventional deck set-up, but has all the flexibility of digital track storage: choosing new tracks without all that swapping of vinyl. Check out the video to see it in action. More »
Entertainment
Rope and Pulley DJ Machine: Move the Beat To Your Body
2:30PM Wilson Rothman | Today at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Show, I discovered my next workout machine: Michael Chladil’s Rope and Pulley. Seriously, gone are the elliptical and the rowing machine—I’m going to install this and do the silly dance you see above every day, until I’m at least as fit as any Wii could make me. More »
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Revolution Synthesizer R2 Looks Like Death Star Control Panel, Not R2
3:38AM Haroon Malik | Future Retro’s Revolution Synthesizer R2 looks amazing; we completely have no use for a synthesiser, but we totally want one. With a complete aluminium construction, perfectly contrasting gun gray and white colours, as well as a smattering of blue LEDs all over, this synthesiser makes us moist in the most clichéd way possible. If that was not enough to get you interested, perhaps the circular sequencer interface, which allows single handed control; the ability to play patterns forwards, backwards, upside down and sideways, as well as remote pattern selection using MIDI program change messages will have you reaching for your anorexic wallet? More »
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Pacemaker Pocket DJ Mixer Reviewed (Verdict: Amateur Fun)
9:00AM Jason Chen | DJing on the bus, at work, in the supermarket and in line at the RTA may sound like a pipe dream, but this pocketable Tonium Pacemaker DJ system lets you do just that. We got hands-on of this at CES, but Kat from TechDigest takes it for a “spin” (worst. pun. ever.) and finds that it’s actually quite good if you ever need to liven up a party with your sub-par DJing skills. Check out the review over at TD. [Tech Digest and Pacemaker] More »
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