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Audyssey’s Sound Dock Packs a PhD

Audyssey’s new iOS-compatible speaker dock squeezes sophisticated software engineering cred—found in the high-end audio equipment you might already own—into one diminutive grilled black slab. With years of university research under its belt, the tiny guy wallops your iPod. The Audyssey dock pounds out a surprising amount of power from a box the size of a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A Week With the New iPods

After spending seven days living with our new iPods, we’re gonna let them stay. As far as media-slinging sidekicks go, they’re pretty good. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. iPod Touch: Multimedia Life-Partner It’s easy to say that the new iPod Touch is the best iPod Touch ever. (It is.) It is un-possibly thin—so…

Reviews Gizmodo Staff

Yamaha’s NS-10: The Most Important Speaker You’ve Never Heard Of

It’s not often you can trace so much creative and artistic awesomeness back to a single piece of gear—particularly in the music industry. Meet the Yamaha NS-10: A speaker you’ve probably never heard of, but have definitely heard. Quick, pick an album you love from the 80s or 90s. Any album. Regardless of where you…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner

Relive the ’70s With Moog’s Voyager XL Synthesizer

Keeping the same oak paneling that makes Moog synthesizers so distinctive, the Minimoog Voyager XL celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Minimoog, which bands such as Kraftwerk and Yes pounded their fingers across so electronically. Bringing it into 2010, the Voyager XL has a 61-note velocity sensitive keyboard, with touch surface controllers, a ribbon controller…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

MC Frontalot’s new Spoiler Alert video is the freaky action movie of your dreams

MC Frontalot’s song “Spoiler Alert” is all about giving away the plot to your favorite movies (and real life), so it’s hilarious that the song’s brilliant video is spoiler-proof. There’s no way to explain this story of bears with jetpacks. I seriously have no idea what the storyline of this video is, but that just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

With great production values come U2’s most hideous songwriting: first song from Spider-Man musical!

U2 previewed the first song from their Spider-Man musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark this morning, and…wow. It’s much, much worse than we’d feared. Did you know if you fly too high, you can get too close to the sun? That’s star Reeve Carney singing “Boy Falls From The Sky,” with his band, Carney. He…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The secret science fiction inspiration behind Jimi Hendrix’s music

We think of Jimi Hendrix as a psychedelic mastermind, but his trippy imagery actually had a more scientific starting point. According to a new biographer, Hendrix was hooked on science fiction, and his song “Purple Haze” is based on SF. Brad Schreiber, co-author of a new Hendrix autobiography called Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Music Videos Created from Google Instant Will Keep Us Entertained For Now

Welcome to the new meme, courtesy of Google Instant. After Google’s official Bob Dylan video, ad agency Whirled had a go with Tom Lehrer’s The Elements, to great success. http://gawker.com/5633106/the-google-ad-steve-jobs-will-hate Can someone please whip me up a video for some other list-based songs, such as Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire? [Whirled via TechCrunch]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Get a taste of Daft Punk’s official Tron Legacy score

The Tron Legacy soundtrack is still months away from being released, but you can hear a little at the new Tron Soundtrack website. It’s short, zippy and full of ominous digitized beats. [Pitchfork]

Movies Meredith Woerner

The zombie apocalypse ruined my week

Singer-songwriter Kirby Krackle has just released this wistful little video, illustrated by Damon O’Keefe, about how the zombie apocalypse is kind of a bummer. Because it means the internet is always really slow.

io9 Annalee Newitz

The best 1970s science fiction music video that never was… until now!

The retro-science fiction music video for Coco Electrik’s Fire features crazy spinning planets, pyramids, spheres from outer space… and deliberately 1970s-looking special effects. The makers of the music video even ran it through a VHS machine for that faded look. According to a really fascinating article in Digital Arts Online, George Tsioutsias and Achilleas Gatsopoulos…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The World’s Biggest Water Balloon Fight Will Make Anyone Smile

120,000 water balloons, 4,000 happy people, and one very cute song. If the combination of those things doesn’t bring a smile to your face, then I don’t know what will. This is the music video for a song called “You Always Make Me Smile” by Kyle Andrews and in it we’re seeing an attempt to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Seeds of Apple’s Cloud

Apple has always sucked at the internet. With Ping and the new Apple TV, Apple sucks a little bit less at it. But Apple could be good at it. https://gizmodo.com/why-arent-i-the-center-of-the-apple-universe-5552953 Apple’s finally starting to reward people for buying into the Apple ecosystem, but everything they’re doing is only a half-step toward what it could be,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iHome Shows Off the First Speaker With Apple’s AirPlay Built In

Let the grand effort to bring wireless music to every room in your house begin (I’m starting with the bathroom). iHome’s teasing an Airplay-enabled stump that will have rechargeable batteries and be available for the holidays. [iHome via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/future-apple-gadgets-getting-airplay-wireless-music-and-5627606

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Rumor: Google Music Hasn’t Signed Any Labels Yet

There’s a very attractive job going at Google, with the company looking for someone to head up its Music launch later this year. Meanwhile, Android dude Andy Rubin is working with the team closely, and even meeting with record labels. Why Rubin? Well, we was the brains behind Android (with Google buying Android from him…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

If Apple Can’t Deal With Facebook’s “Onerous” Terms For Ping, Why Is It In Apple’s Keynote Screenshots? [Updated]

Did Steve Jobs pull Facebook support for Ping, Apple’s new music-focused social networking service, at the last second? Ping launched yesterday without support for Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking service. This is a bummer because being able to import friends from Facebook — and being able to export Ping activity to Facebook —…

Tech News Dan Frommer - Business Insider

Review: the New iPod Touch

When Apple reshuffled the iPod lineup, the iPod touch became something else. It’s not the expensive, fancy iPod. Or the cheap, gimped iPhone anymore. It’s the iPod. It’s easy to say that it’s the best iPod touch ever. (It is.) Every iPod of this generation has evolved in a way in which form tightly hews…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Review: The New iPod Nano

Apple’s iPod nano 2010 is a good MP3 player. It’s tiny, the battery seems to last forever, and it has a great user interface. This is the best pure music player out there right now, thanks to the combination of its physical specs and user interface. It may not be the prettiest—it reminds me of…

Reviews Jesus Diaz

Review: The New iPod Shuffle

It’s not an easy thing, admitting you were wrong. But with the 2010 iPod Shuffle, Apple’s owned up to the previous generation’s follies in the best possible way: fixing them. Mostly. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-shuffle-review-2009-5169174 This new Shuffle, this little square nubbin of an MP3 player, is equal parts retreat and evolution. Gone entirely is the BIC lighter…

Reviews Brian Barrett

Sony’s iTunes Competitor is Music Unlimited

Sony revealed its big new push into the music world last night, in the form of Music Unlimited—a new way for everyone to manage their audio collections and listen to music, entirely via the cloud. It’s based solely around streaming titles from Sony’s servers rather than physically purchasing individual files, with Sony claiming this relieves…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Audyssey’s Sound Dock Packs a PhD

A Week With the New iPods

Yamaha’s NS-10: The Most Important Speaker You’ve Never Heard Of

Relive the ’70s With Moog’s Voyager XL Synthesizer

MC Frontalot’s new Spoiler Alert video is the freaky action movie of your dreams

With great production values come U2’s most hideous songwriting: first song from Spider-Man musical!

The secret science fiction inspiration behind Jimi Hendrix’s music

Music Videos Created from Google Instant Will Keep Us Entertained For Now

Get a taste of Daft Punk’s official Tron Legacy score

The zombie apocalypse ruined my week

The best 1970s science fiction music video that never was… until now!

The World’s Biggest Water Balloon Fight Will Make Anyone Smile

The Seeds of Apple’s Cloud

iHome Shows Off the First Speaker With Apple’s AirPlay Built In

Rumor: Google Music Hasn’t Signed Any Labels Yet

If Apple Can’t Deal With Facebook’s “Onerous” Terms For Ping, Why Is It In Apple’s Keynote Screenshots? [Updated]

Review: the New iPod Touch

Review: The New iPod Nano

Review: The New iPod Shuffle

Sony’s iTunes Competitor is Music Unlimited

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