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music

Skinny Portugueezer Shows Us How to Do the TUIST

This hirsute-yet-handsome Iberomacho is Rui Pereira, creator of an instrument for non-musicians (no, chaps, it's too early for such smuttiness.) The TUIST, or Tranformable Uber Interface for STardom, is basically a tube with sensors that measure finger pressure that can act as either guitar, bass or drums. Developed at NYU (Pereira is on the Interactive Telecommunications Program). Aimed at "people who don't know shit about music," the TUIST is for Guitar Hero fans who want to take their "fretwork"/""string-plucking"/"tub-thumping" skills to the next level—without learning a thing about music. Rather than just parroting the riffs, the TUIST lets you be creative on it, and lets you record your attempts to put Yngwie /Bernard Edwards/Buddy Rich in the shade on its built-in loop controller. [Wired]

6:00 AM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By AddyDugdale
1,399 views, 9 comments

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underseas cables

Perpetrators of Cut Undersea Cable Discovered, Not Godzilla BTW

Over two months after The Mystery of Godzilla and the Undersea Cables, a mini-series starring Tom Selleck and Dyan Cannon, at last we have closure. Two ships, one Korean and one Iraqi—typing fingers at the ready, conspiracy theorists—were impounded by the authorities in Dubai a couple of months ago and, following payment of a rather large fine by the Korean ship, it has been allowed to leave. More below. More »

7:32 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By AddyDugdale
15,184 views, 42 comments

sea saw

How To Fix a Mysteriously Ruptured Undersea Cable

Not a week after two massive undersea telecom cables were snapped—according to BBC News, most likely due not to Godzilla but a single tanker "dragging its anchor along the sea bed"—and the repairs are well underway. But how in the hell do you repair a nine-layer steel-reinforced cable located deep beneath the surface of the Mediterranean? More »

10:10 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
20,730 views, 62 comments

sea saw

Undersea Telecom Cables Mysteriously Cut, Digitally Stranding India and Middle East

One of today's biggest stories is the fact that India and the Middle East had about 75% of their digital connection to Europe cut off when two cables on the floor of the Mediterranean snapped under mysterious circumstances. Cables get damaged all the time, but never have two gone out simultaneously. It will take days, or even a week to repair the cables. No one knows the cause—or do they? See update below. More »

10:57 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Wilson Rothman
23,206 views, 76 comments

broadband

Congress Tells Off FCC, Expects Full Count of Broadband Households

Turns out, the FCC defines an entire zip code as served by broadband when one single household receives one single 200-kilobit trickle. The US House of Representatives voted to change that. It seems, in order to see exactly how badly we're doing compared to the other post-industrial nations—do we rank 11th? or 15th? or 24th?—there needs to be a more accurate "broadband census." More »

7:20 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,965 views, 12 comments

gadgets

Magic Orb: Spinning LEDs Are More Than Just Blinkinlights

From the same NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program that brought you the alluring solar bikini, James N Sears brings you his Orb, a tricky experimental device that consists of rapidly rotating LEDs and some clever programming. Your persistence of vision ties it all together, making it look like a solid object. More »

11:08 AM on Thu Dec 21 2006
By Charlie White
1,151 views, 13 comments