Gizmodo: sounds

Mugen Pop Pop Infinite Bubble Wrap Now on iPhones

Elaine Chow — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:45:00 EDT

Bandai first brought the pleasure of regular bubble wrap to your keychain with its Mugen Pop Pop Toy. And now, in case you don't bring your keys everywhere, they've put it on the iPhone too!

The iPhone app, which is free, gives you three different Mugen Pop Pop play modes: normal, repeat and scramble.

Normal - Touch Mugen Pop Pop bubble to hear "Pop" sounds - Be on the lookout for surprise sound effects!

Repeat - Select difficulty level - Mugen Pop Pop will play a "Popping" sequence and then flash all buttons. It is then your turn to "Repeat" the popping sequence. A sound will be heard when you've completed it correctly and new sequence will start.

Scramble - Select difficulty level - Mugen Pop Pop will illuminate one or multiple "Pops", you must "Scramble" quickly to touch the Pop before Mugen Pop Pop scrambles you.

Get a poppin'! [iTunes]

Hard Drive Failure Soundboard Guarantees Debilitating Flashbacks

John Herrman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:30:00 EST

Data recovery service Datacent has put together an extensive collection of recordings of popular hard drives failing. This might sound pretty boring, but it isn't just bunch of typical of click-click-bzzzzz heartbreakers — a lot of these sounds are downright bizarre. Who knew that Maxtor drives play a song when their spindles fail? Or that failing Hitachi Deskstars wrote every Autechre track, ever? Or that Toshiba laptop drives are actually screeching Helldemons with an acute sense of pain? [Datacent via Slashdot]

Star Trek Tribble Replica Wriggles and Coos, Won't Over-Run Your Home

Kit Eaton — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:12:00 EST

A six-inch furry toy that vibrates and makes the genuine cooing sounds of the Tribbles from Star Trek... probably something to not buy if you've got predatory cats around the place. You never know though, since these electronic replicas have a "Klingon mode" where they get truly battle-agitated, and that might put the wind up Ginger. Due for shipping in early 2009, they'll cost around $28 and luckily have no in-built self-replication mode. [Product via OhGizmo]

AMK is Lego-Like Digital Instrument For Your Kids, Ear-Ache For You

Kit Eaton — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EDT

The AMK (that's Alle Meine Klänge) looks something like the bastard offspring of Lego and a Guitar-Hero controller, with a few extra digital sprinklings thrown in. The idea is that its different modules can be plugged together in many ways to produce music: some have sound effects, others record incoming sounds and replay them and another unit is the amp/loudspeaker. Then the whole thing is played with simple twist controls and buttons. Confused? Watch the video of the concept toy in action at designers PKNTS Studio's website, and you'll have perfect comprehension: if this toy is made real and your kids get one, you'll never get a lie-in again. [PKNTS via Yanko Design]

Windows XP Sounds On the Piano

Jason Chen — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:10:08 EST

If you thought that half hour you spent digging stuff out of various parts of your body was a waste of time, check out what this guy figured out how to play on his synth piano. Yeah, it's Windows noises. His professors at Juilliard are so proud. Money well spent, Mom! – Jason Chen

How to play Windows XP alerts on the piano [MusicThing]

Razz Software And Headset

gizmodo.com — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:15:34 EST

If you spent a lot of time pretending you were Larvell Jones growing up, or you carry Mr T In Your Pocket wherever you go, we're guessing you're exactly the kind of person Phonebites Inc's targeting with their Razz Software and Razz Headset. Both of them let you load sound clip collections (what they call "Razz Packs") that you can then play over your mobile phone; current choices include hokey clips like fart sounds, smoochy kissy noises, horror movie screams, but they also have licensed clips from The Jerky Boys, Family Guy and Napoleon Dynamite.

The Razz Software is still in beta and only loads onto compatible phones (Nokias with the Symbian OS, plus the N70, N90, N-Gage and Sendo X), you can currently download the beta for free. The Headset can be plugged in to most any phone model and costs $19.95.

Razz (Demo of Software and Headset) [via Tech Digest]