It’s a tube, LED, USB, NO, it’s a USB LED Light Tube speaker that can perfectly complement any of your iPod/MP3/MP4 devices with its cool glowing light.  This goes well on any Star Wars enthusiast’s desk, provided you have muppet dolls of all the chararcters too.

At $22, the USB LED Light Tube Speakers will get you sounds worth bang for your buck.

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If you are a musician, you will reap cash-savings benefits from making these stackable Gobos for your garage music studio.

Now, here’s how to make those pesky little sound-absorbing, stackable gobos!

Gobos are really useful things especially if you’re working in a sub-par recording environment (ie. your living room). So what exactly is a Gobo?

Baffle - A physical object that absorbs or otherwise reduces the volume of sound which passes through it, or is reflected by it.

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This might be the craziest piano every built, an air piano that plays sounds based on your “touchless” finger movements.

Well, think of it this way, what if all the previous famous pianists had their hands on this one?

The AirPiano is an innovative musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air.

Above the AirPiano is a virtual matrix of keys and faders, each assigned with MIDI messages and ready to be triggered. The length of a triggered note is equivalent to the time a hand
is placed on the corresponding virtual key.
This is also confirmed by LED feedback.

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Here’s an awesome watch that lets you listen to MP3s AND transmit the MP3 songs or your recordings via FM station. Now, here’s a watch you can use as portable MP3 for your car OR you can even use it as emergency FM transmit device. How cool is that?

Features:

• Memory: 2GB
• Music Format: MP3, WMA, WAV
• FM Transmitter
• 5 EQ Modes
• Waterproof up to 3 Meters with Earphone Jack and MIC hole closed
• Built in MIC
• Earphone Jack: 2.5mm
• USB: 2.0
• System: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista, Mac 8.6/OSX, Linux 2.4.X or above
• Power Source: Built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery
• Dimension: 46×46×19m

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Here’s a cool recycled record case that you can store your good ol’ records in.

Designed with vintage record carrying cases in mind, with a new twist, this handmade box holds somewhere between thirty and forty seven-inch vinyl records - or whatever else you may want to store or take with you. Enjoy storing your records within a box made of records! What, no records to store you say? It would make a cool and truly unique purse as well.

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Here’s an informational video by cyclons on why DRM is bad idea.

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Here’s a funky robot that dances to the music from Japan.  You can even hook up your iPod to enjoy your music on the robot.

It’s a robot for pure recreation, I am not sure how it’d sell in the U.S. market yet.

The two-wheeled, dancing A.M.P. (Automated Music Personality or Ampbot) from Sega-Hasbro stands 2.4-feet tall and features a MP3 or iPod cradle on its back, stereo speakers, and the ability to follow and interact with its owner. There’s a 5-inch mid-range speaker in the chest and a pair of smaller tweeters in the shoulders for a total output of 12 watts. Osamu Takeuchi of Sega Toys says, “The owner can also enjoy being chased around the house by the robot.

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Can’t afford a real flute?  Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own PVC pipe flute!

Here’s a HowTo on building a pvc recorder out of cheap parts (pvc pipe and dowel rod) and common tools.

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Here’s a nifty little gadget called “D Angle Guitar Hanger” to keep your guitar safely in place.  Mind you, if your girlfriend gets mad at you and bashed the guitar over your head, this isn’t going to help that.

Innovative design can be hung from almost any horizontal surface. Coated surface protects your instrument’s finish.

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The Dog MP3 does not look like a dog.  Instead, it looks like a fluffy cloud with eyes and green tentacles.

Neverthless, it looks cute and this MP3 might just do good for your girlfriend’s birthday.

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Here’s a cool DIY headphone.  I can feel ya because I listen to music all day long too.  As soon as I am off the computer, I immediate switch onto my MP3 or iPod.

Since I listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks throughout the day while I’m working, I adapted a pair of normal safety earphones for speakers, and added a vintage look. I cut the outside portion of the cups off, replaced with a curved flat sheet of plastic -over which I mounted the grill (from an old record player) and the cork which I sanded to shape. Then I painted the rest of the shell green, and installed some $50 drivers. I still use them daily.

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Wow, check out the roboband. I honestly they are better than most of the population.

the Trons practicing “Sister Robot” in the lounge before their up and coming Ignition Fringe Festival shows!

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Here’s an interesting DIY light bar controller that might interest your weekend hacking desires.

This device analyses the music it picks up via the electret microphone, then flashes the LEDs in time to the music. It’s encased in the box SparkFun sent me the microphones in, since the box was just begging to be used as a case for something! I’m sure that was intentionally designed.

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Supposedly, this video was leaked but I bet it was to make it go viral.  The new Walkman seems promising on the side note.

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Here’s a great 8″ digital frame with an embedded MP3 player so you can play music too.

Features:

• 128mb built-in memory allows you to use your memory card in your camera while your pictures are shown on the frame
• Enhanced TFT LCD Screen with the highest possible resolution, wide viewing angles and long life span
• Resolution: 800×600: Full 8 inch (diagonal) screen with brightness control: remote control included
• Features slide show mode and image rotation and is compatible with JPEG, JPEG Motion & AVI files
• Compatible media cards: SD, Compact Flash, Secured Digital, Multi Media Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, and Memory Stick Pro

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Wow, this is a really great idea for a wall shelf/MP3 player.  Designed by NoDesign.

You have to see this cool technology that is called Wazz AL and is designed by NoDesign. In a few words Wazz AL is a bookshelf which can play the music, and with very cool control panel, you can see more by watching the video from this post. Waaz AL is a shelf connected to a computer that doubles as a device for audio diffusion and archiving digital music files (MP3).

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Here’s a floppy disk that plays some really horrible Star Wars music.  Why!!!

I assume it’s a hardware hack that manually controls the floppy drive’s stepper motor, but it’d make my day if this was done in software using standard I/O requests. Either way, the 3.5 inch FDD finally serves an important function again.

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Now, you can play drums in the dark AND look cool.

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iBoom should be here shortly for your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPods…

Featuring a 3″ subwoofer and a 1″ tweeter, our speakers provide an output power of 5Wx2 with a frequency response of 80Hz-20,000Hz. The iBoom Hifi can also charge your iPod, measures 300×190x240mm, and weighs 2Kg.

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Great stuff man…

Why spend all the energy to hack into a Wii guitar to play a song that’s relatively easy to play on a real guitar? You might as well ask, ‘Why go to the moon when going to the mall is so simple?’

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This $21 1GB MP3 player will function a lot better than my crappy Morotola wireless stereo bluetooth headset, which looks almost identical.

Specs:

- Built-in 1GB flash memory
- Plays MP3/WMA/WAV music files
- Signal-to-Noise: >=86dB
- Response: 20hz ~ 20Khz
- 8 hours continuous music playback per charge (manufacturer rated)
- Built-in 168mAh rechargeable lithium battery
- USB 2.0 data interface
- Recharged by USB port (USB data charging cable included)

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Remember we had a guy who designed the “egg” phone? Well, here’s “egg” speakers. Speaking of eggs, whatever happened to eggheads the retailer? (I guess they went bankrupt back in 2001…)

More pics after the jump.

Features:

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A Japanese company just launched a solar powered media player that can play your audio and video files.

The design looks somewhat big and clunky but we can’t complain as this is probably one of the ver first solar powered media devices out today.

Thanko, a Japanese company, released a new Solar Digital Audio Player. Our device is equipped with a 1.8’’ LCD screen (220×176), 4GB of Internal memory, a miniSD card slot (512MB-2GB), and a solar panel to charge your DAP. Of course it can also be charged via the USB port.

Our Solar DAP reads MP3/WMA/WAV audio files, and AVI/RM/VOB/DAT/RMVB video files.

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Check out this 360 degree glasss speaker from Sony.  It won’t be available here in the US for awhile but still…it looks cool and I bet the sound is good too.

Sony announced the launch of its unique glass speaker system named Sauntina (model: NSA-PF1). It vibrates with a single three-dimensional depth, producing clear sound in 360 degrees. The glass tube can also be illuminated with the choice of three colors including blue, amber and purple. 360 degree sound is not a big deal and can be achieved easily using normal speakers too, but this is something new and sound reproduction is done using vibrating glass instead of coil as in normal speakers. It will go on sale in Japan on June 20th for 1,050,000 JPY.

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Here’s an interesting concept belt speakers from Soft Values.  I don’t know why I’d use instead of a regular headphones but still, kudos for a great concept.

The Soft Values Portable Speaker sits in a small, ball-like form that encloses a soft, fabric sock and a strap. This sock will unfold out of the speaker and cover it up to give the Soft Values Portable Speaker a nice and soft feel. The strap obviously comes in handy to lug this little sound box around. Though we don’t have too many details about the speaker, a Bluetooth connection for streaming music wirelessly would be a nice touch. This speaker might feature a rechargeable lithium ion batteries and charging it may be thorough a USB port. If these nifty features make it to the Soft Values Portable Speaker, it would be one concept worth watching out for, although the design seems a little too girly for our liking.

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DJ Plasma LED Lights will sync to your favorite music simply by plugging into the line-in plug of the device.

Features:

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MP9 is a new type of audio file format that allows the user to control each musical instrument.

For example, let’s say you are listening to some rap but you wanted to voice your own vocals, turn off the vocals and wala.

Another example is if you were a guitarholic and you wanted to listen to only guitar, you can turn off the bass, vocal, and everything else to focus on the guitar sounds only.

This is a great idea by the way. Currently, you could do something slightly similar by filtering the frequencies of the music file but it would require a lot of technical knowledge on the users part.

If this file format goes international and live, which I believe it will, you will get another level of user control and experience for every song you hear.

The MT9 technology was first conceived by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and is being shaped into commercial use by venture company Audizen. It was selected as a candidate item for the new digital music standard at a regular meeting of Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the international body of the digital music and video industry, held in France late April.

“We made presentations to the participants and they were all surprised to see it. They immediately voted to make it a candidate for the digital music standard,” said Ham Seung-chul, chief of Audizen. He is expecting it will be formerly selected as an international standard in the MPEG forum’s next meeting to be held in Germany June.

via koreatimes