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Roth MC4 Music Cocoon iPod Dock is a Series of Real Tubes

We're getting bored with iPod docks, but not with this MC4 Music Cocoon from Roth Audio. Look at that blend of the old and new with real operating tubes along with a universal dock for your iPod. More »

12:00 PM on Mon Mar 5 2007
By Charlie White
4,084 views, 17 comments

gadgets

Swatch Concept: Air Tube Design Has Us Pumped

Wish we could say this is the latest Swatch that's on sale now, but not yet. It's a concept by British designer Laurence Dawes based on a bicycle pump tube. Even though those floating numerals might be a bit difficult to manufacture, we think the concept is sufficiently eye-catching to warrant that coveted Swatch thumbs-up anyway. More »

9:57 AM on Tue Jan 23 2007
By Charlie White
1,675 views, 9 comments

gadgets

Zvex Nano Head: Tiny Tube Amp Packs Punch

The Zvex Nano Head is the world's smallest tube guitar amplifier, bound to be a favorite of electric git-box pickers and grinners all over the guitarisphere because of its unique distortion characteristics. More »

3:14 PM on Tue Nov 21 2006
By Charlie White
2,154 views, 3 comments

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Undersound: A Music-based MySpace For the Subway

We don't get much subway entertainment (aside from that homeless guy who always plays the accordion for us) so our curiosity was piqued when we came across Undersound. Though it's yet to be rolled out, Undersound is an interface you can access from your Bluetooth handheld while riding the subway. From it, you can download and upload songs, anonymously browse through other commuters' music libraries (they'll be pinged if you decide to download from them), and access info about the subway station you're currently at (we're not sure why you'd wanna do that, but, ok). The idea behind the network sounds pretty cool and it'll finally give us something to do on the train other than fall asleep on our neighbor's shoulder. – Louis Ramirez More »

10:55 AM on Thu Oct 19 2006
By Louis Ramirez
256 views, 9 comments

Latest by gubatron: I'm just waiting for wifi enabled ipods, or that Zune to come out and see what I can do... it'd be amazing to make free program for file sharing on the subway, and then sync back to your pc (which more »

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All-Tube Digital Clock

Nixie tubes, otherwise known as numicators, were hawt stuff back in the pre-LED/LCD 60s if you wanted to display numerals in their digital form. Now do-it-yourselfers are creating retro clocks using the things. We've seen lots of nixie clocks before, but this one is the Mother of All Nixie Clocks, using 103 tubes and taking the guy seven years to build. More »

11:14 AM on Mon Jun 26 2006
By Charlie White
1,123 views, Comment