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iDog MP3 Speaker Toy Goes Soft And Cuddly, At Last

It’s been a while since we mentioned the iDog from Tiger/Hasbro, because it was basically a dog that’d had its day: Until now that is, when Tiger have removed one of the toy’s problems by adding cuddliness. It still has a speaker and does the same LED-flashing face and wiggling in reaction to your music,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Best Unsung Filk Ever, in Honor of Star Wars Holiday Special

Today is the 30th anniversary of the ill-fated TV experience known as the Star Wars Holiday Special. Featuring a group of Wookiees trying to celebrate the holidays while being hassled by Imperial troops – along with song-and-dance numbers and comedy bits in a variety show format – the two-hour special was deemed so hideous that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Free Flaming Lips For Christmas

Want to hear the soundtrack to the Flaming Lips’ new movie Christmas On Mars for free? Ain’t It Cool has a streaming version of the music for the beardie weirdie band’s latest project – which we told you about back in August – available right here. It’s no Buggin, but it’ll do for now.

Movies Graeme McMillan

Sound Sewing Machine Concept Shows You the Music

This concept of a sewing machine was created by SOUNDS.BUTTER, a design group interested in physically representing sound waves. They sought to represent it tactically instead of digitally where sound is oft seen in sound and music editing. The sewing machine was chosen because of its association with industriousness and physicality. While it is a…

Tech News Erica Ho

It’s Not Filk – It’s Trock!

Filk is a science fiction and fantasy inflected subgenre of folk music — you know, tales of hobbits and Tatooine all done up with acoustic stylings. But filk is also heavily associated with the 1960s hippie generation, and nerdy rockers these days need something that has a more millennial feeling. Enter Trock, or Timelord Rock.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Handheld Sequencer Scans Images and Plays Them Back as MIDI Notes

Ooooh—This is a weird one. Using LDR photocells and an arduino, this handheld sequencer is capable of scanning an image and spitting it back out as a sequence of haunting MIDI notes. If you are as interested as I am in seeing how this would interpret a photocopy of the butt, then by all means…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 5 is a Reasonable Media Controller (For Your Megayacht)

When Bang & Olufsen, maker of very expensive things that use electricity, let slip a photo of their upcoming BeoSound 5 home media controller, I saw a lot of potential. The interface looked nice, the hardware classy, and the screen crisp — in other words, if this thing connected with network music shares and played…

Tech News John Herrman

Dell Ditching Zing-Based MP3 Player Plans, Says Rumor

In July there were some strong rumors that Dell would be bringing out a Zing-based MP3 player that would be a “Zune killer“: but now it looks like those plans have been canned. According to the Wall St Journal, Dell had been as close as this Autumn to making at least one Zing-device, but the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Ear Bud Headphones Are a Shot Through the Heart for Pacemaker Patients

We have some bad news for people with pacemakers this afternoon. A new study found that headphone ear buds can make them a bit wonky. So, while you take a breather from Lauren Hill’s Killing Me Softly, and drape those iPod ear buds around your neck, they could be, well, killing you softly. With his…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Dr. Horrible Soundtrack is 5 Bucks on Amazon Today

Felicia Day, star of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, has Twittered that the mad scientist musical soundtrack is cheap online today. I just downloaded it and now I can’t stop singing the Bad Horse letters, as well as “Brand New Day.” I’m gonna shock the world and show Bad Horse! [via Amazon]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Teac’s LP-R500 CD-Equipped Record Player Fell Through Ugly Timewarp

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. This is Teac’s LP-R500. Ugh. Sorry, I’ll try pulling myself together: it’s a modern version of what my grandad used to call a “radiogramme,” cramming in an FM radio, a CD player, cassette player and record deck into one sleek ancient, massive, clunky box along with an amp and speakers. Admittedly it…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

EOps i24R3 Wireless Gesture-Control iPhone Speaker is Quite Beautiful, Actually

Just unveiled at Tokyo Designer’s Week, EOps i24R3 is probably the best-looking speaker system for the iPod/iPhone I think I’ve seen. Plus it’s jammed-full of wirelessness, so the iPod-dock, woofer-equipped base station is paired with two or more (up to eight) remote stereo speakers. And in the true spirit of iPhoneness it’s gesture controlled— touch-free…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Sarah Brightman Flashes Her Holographic Eyes, Belts Out New Repo! Song

The goth-y movie musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, set in a sad dystopia where organ harvesting is common practice, has released a new song video-clip out into the world. Powerhouse singer Sarah Brightman haunts the screen as Blind Mag, who sings to her long lost god daughter and spits out holographic pictures from her eyes.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Dane-Elec Tries Media and Music PMPs on For Size

Dane-Elec, known for distributing the iPhone ripoff Meizu 8 and the M6, is ready to try its hand with a few PMPs of its own. The first four players in the new line are named pretty much for what they do. There’s the Music Mediatouch, for molesting music and media files with a touchscreen. Then…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Walmart Selling DRM-Free MP3s for 74 Cents; Finally Mac (and Linux) Friendly Too

The Walmart MP3 store has always seemed like the third wheel of online music stores behind Amazon and iTunes. Sure, it offers up DRM-free MP3s, but it only worked for Windows users on IE, which limited its appeal. But now, Walmart has finally added support for Mac and Linux users, as well as Firefox and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

New “Dune” Director Gives Us Christina Aguilera as Lightning Catwoman

We know that pop stars are readying the world for a scifi tidal wave, but perhaps some of them need a bit more guidance. The new music video for Christina Aguilera’s “Keeps Gettin’ Better” is a mess of hits and misses. Hit: comic book action and a lady producer bringing her characters to life. Miss:…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Goodbye, Productivity: MTV Music Site Posts Every Music Video Ever

Click to view I hope you’ve got some time to kill, because the new MTV Music website is pretty much the coolest thing ever for music fans. At long last, the MTV name is being associated with music videos again, because the “music” channel has gone and put its entire archive of music videos online,…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Wayne Coyne’s Guitar Hero Controller Mod Is, Unsurprisingly, The Coolest We’ve Ever Seen

Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, what a guy. Befitting his eternally-brilliant-child-trapped-inside-acid-washed-adult self, he has built a fantastic looking Guitar Hero guitar mod that melds a Korg Kaoss pad, a working GH controller and a beautiful white Gibson double-neck guitar-a rig he’s using to film a brief 8-second spot for NBC, of all things. The…

Television John Mahoney

Nokia Announces the Musical Bench

Nokia may rule a large portion of the worldwide cellphone market, but you know, with the economy and everything, it never hurts to diversify. Nokia is setting up musical benches throughout the UK to promote their Comes With Music audio service, each featuring three integrated handsets with headphones to sample music.The track lists are said…

Tech News Mark Wilson

AC/DC Excel Spreadsheet Music Video Has Us Thunderstruck

Sure, AC/DC may be behind the times on digital distribution. And they could be described as “in denial” about the death of the music album, but this Microsoft Excel spreadsheet music video, while not condoned by the band in any way, is rockin’ our Hell’s Bells this fine Sunday afternoon. Better still, this “music video”…

Tech News Jack Loftus

iDog MP3 Speaker Toy Goes Soft And Cuddly, At Last

Best Unsung Filk Ever, in Honor of Star Wars Holiday Special

Free Flaming Lips For Christmas

Sound Sewing Machine Concept Shows You the Music

It’s Not Filk – It’s Trock!

Handheld Sequencer Scans Images and Plays Them Back as MIDI Notes

Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 5 is a Reasonable Media Controller (For Your Megayacht)

Dell Ditching Zing-Based MP3 Player Plans, Says Rumor

Ear Bud Headphones Are a Shot Through the Heart for Pacemaker Patients

Dr. Horrible Soundtrack is 5 Bucks on Amazon Today

Teac’s LP-R500 CD-Equipped Record Player Fell Through Ugly Timewarp

EOps i24R3 Wireless Gesture-Control iPhone Speaker is Quite Beautiful, Actually

Sarah Brightman Flashes Her Holographic Eyes, Belts Out New Repo! Song

Dane-Elec Tries Media and Music PMPs on For Size

Walmart Selling DRM-Free MP3s for 74 Cents; Finally Mac (and Linux) Friendly Too

New “Dune” Director Gives Us Christina Aguilera as Lightning Catwoman

Goodbye, Productivity: MTV Music Site Posts Every Music Video Ever

Wayne Coyne’s Guitar Hero Controller Mod Is, Unsurprisingly, The Coolest We’ve Ever Seen

Nokia Announces the Musical Bench

AC/DC Excel Spreadsheet Music Video Has Us Thunderstruck

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