Singing

This In-Car Karaoke Microphone Gives Strong Singing in the Shower Vibes

Singing Machine wants to put a full-fledged karaoke setup inside modern vehicles, though it's better when other people can’t hear your vocals.

Gadgets Kyle Barr Jan 9

Photo: Anang Dianto, PTFI Papua Province, Indonesia

An Ancient Breed of Singing Dog Isn’t Extinct in the Wild After All

A breed of wild dog known for its lyrical sounds may not be as extinct as we thought, according to a new paper out Monday. The study details genetic evidence suggesting that the New Guinea singing dog—thought to have only existed in captivity for the past 50 years—is still alive in the wilds of Indonesia.…

Biology Ed Cara Aug 31

Utopia Falls Is a Formulaic Dystopian YA Love Letter to Hip-Hop

Hulu’s Utopia Falls, created by R.T. Thorne, is a dystopian YA drama that simultaneously feels like a story you’ve heard countless times before and like a heartfelt attempt at trying to bring something new to a generally formulaic genre. Set in a world where the last bastion of humanity lives in a literal bubble under…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 14

Why Scientists Trained a Seal to Sing the Star Wars Theme

Listening to grey seals recite vowel sounds and sing the melodies to Star Wars and “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” makes for excellent entertainment, but for the researchers who trained these aquatic mammals, it’s serious science. Animals make all sorts of wacky sounds, and some are even good at imitating the sounds of other animals. The…

Biology George Dvorsky Jun 21

Silly Video Edits Together Popular Movie Characters to Make Them Sing in the Rain

Ever imagine a movie scene where Gene Kelly is singing in the rain while Neo and Agent Smith fight and Spider-Man does his upside down kiss with Mary Jane? What about if Tony Leung from The Grandmaster, Jet Li from Lethal Weapon 4, T-Rex from Jurassic Park, and replicant Roy Batty from Blade Runner all…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 27

All the Gear You Need to Throw a Karaoke Party In Your Living Room

Karaoke: For something that strikes fear into many hearts, it can be life-affirming magic in the hands of the right host. You, my friend, can be that host. Personally, I have little interest in singing in front of strangers on a stage at a bar. But the Japanese-style, private rooms are completely different: It’s just…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Aug 14

This machine sings better than most humans

Most humans can’t sing. But that doesn’t stop them from belting out songs in the shower or whistling a tune in traffic or drunkenly grabbing the mic during karoake. It should. Maybe this machine can shame us. It’s a singing machine that sings love songs from the 90’s with emotion unexpected from a machine. The…

Sploid Casey Chan Jul 29

Listen To The Most Astonishing Musical Style Ever: Throat Singing

There is no question that the human voice is a remarkable musical instrument, but few singing styles hit that point home as well as overtone singing — commonly known as throat singing —does. And it’s incredible to hear and watch multiple pitches coming out of a single mouth. Throat singing from Mongolia, where the style…

io9 Vincze Miklós May 8

Murders, Tsunamis, Bus Singing: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Why were so many people shot in Chicago last weekend? Does today’s earthquake in Japan mean another Fukushima meltdown? And why does Winnipeg want to fine people $100 for singing in public? These are the questions we address in this week’s edition of What’s Ruining Our Cities. Murders are ruining Chicago Chicago’s murder rate has…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jul 11

America, Why Is Your National Anthem So Goddamn Hard To Sing?

As virtually every American citizen knows all too well, belting out the National Anthem can be a rather precarious proposition. Here’s what the experts have to say about “The Star Spangled Banner” and why it’s such a challenging piece, even for professionals. Over at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Blog, program producer M.K.…

io9 George Dvorsky May 15

Listen to the awesome cast of The Lion King start singing on a plane

This is either the best flight ever—if it wasn’t delayed and you managed to eat and rest beforehand—or the worst flight ever—if you’re trying to catch up on sleep and are stuck next to an oversized mouth breather. Still, I’d like to think that most people with a working heart that pumps blood would have…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 1

Hugh Jackman Sings About The Challenges Of Playing Wolverine

Hugh Jackman is famous both for performing in musicals and portraying the superhero Wolverine—but what happens when he sings about playing Wolverine? The folks at BBC Radio 1’s The Matt Edmondson Show convinced Jackman to sing a Wolverine-themed number to the tune of “Who Am I?” from Les Misérables. Now that I think about it,…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 29

A simple cure for public speaking anxiety: Get excited

To make public speaking easier, don’t calm down, scientists say. Instead, get excited. A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology took a look at strategies for getting through a tense public performance — ranging from making a speech, to solving a math problem, to belting out a tune at karaoke — and found…

io9 Ria Misra Jan 13

Mice can learn to sing together in harmony

Mice have just been added to a pretty selective group. Like humans and some birds, they can learn songs. At least, that’s according to a new article published in the journal PLoS ONE. Unfortunately, the scientists haven’t trained the mice use their ultrasonic songs to replicate the Queen of the Night aria or anything, but…

io9 Tim Barribeau Oct 11

Bring Off-Key Screeching To Your Living Room With This Smartphone Karaoke Machine

Of course your smartphone (or tablet) can handle Karaoke, but you don’t want to have to hold a screen while you’re rocking out and driving the neighbors insane; you want a microphone, to add to the ridiculous fantasy that you’re worth listening to. Enter the AppToyz AppSing, complete with scorpion-like phone holder. While you’re busy…

Gadgets Eric Limer Sep 16

Taiwanese singing robot head is a melodious abomination

Professor Chyi-Yeu Lin of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology has experimented with robot heads before (here’s a few of them), and now his team has built a robot that can read music and emote according to the song’s lyrics. Too bad this head looks like the Bride of Johnny Cab. From the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 15

I Can’t Listen to This Creepy Robot Head Sing Her Head Off

Floating singing lips are creepy but seeing a robotic head with dark soul sucking eyes (that double as cameras) try to sing might be just as bad. Especially when she’s horribly shrieky and a little too realistic. https://gizmodo.com/this-gross-robotic-mouth-is-like-a-singing-fleshlight-5820842 Developed by Chyi-Yeu Lin, the robot head can look at a sheet of music with her eye-cameras…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 15

Everything you want to know about the physiology of yodeling

Dr. Timothy Elbert Wise is not only a joint-programme leader of both the Popular Music and Recording and Popular Musicology degrees at the University of Salford, UK, but is also one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history and physiology of yodelling. He has published a number of scholarly papers on the subject, (full…

io9 Martin Gardiner - Improbable Research Jul 30

Songify for iPhone: I’m Going to Win a Freaking Grammy For This One

What if I told you that you could be a singer if you just spoke into an app. Seriously, that’s all you have to do with Songify. The app autotunes your voice and stitches it against a song. YOU SOUND AWESOME. What’s it do? It turns basic speech into awesome songs. You don’t even have…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 20

The Matrix Lobby Scene A Capella Style

Everyone remembers the classic shoot-em-up lobby scene from The Matrix. Bullets flying, people flying, it was awesome. What would happen to that scene if you took out the original soundtrack and replaced it with a multi-track a capella performance from Matt Mulholland? You would get the video above which is guaranteed to make you smile,…

Tech News Kelly Jun 30

Singing

This In-Car Karaoke Microphone Gives Strong Singing in the Shower Vibes

An Ancient Breed of Singing Dog Isn’t Extinct in the Wild After All

Utopia Falls Is a Formulaic Dystopian YA Love Letter to Hip-Hop

Why Scientists Trained a Seal to Sing the Star Wars Theme

Silly Video Edits Together Popular Movie Characters to Make Them Sing in the Rain

All the Gear You Need to Throw a Karaoke Party In Your Living Room

This machine sings better than most humans

Listen To The Most Astonishing Musical Style Ever: Throat Singing

Murders, Tsunamis, Bus Singing: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

America, Why Is Your National Anthem So Goddamn Hard To Sing?

Listen to the awesome cast of The Lion King start singing on a plane

Hugh Jackman Sings About The Challenges Of Playing Wolverine

A simple cure for public speaking anxiety: Get excited

Mice can learn to sing together in harmony

Bring Off-Key Screeching To Your Living Room With This Smartphone Karaoke Machine

Taiwanese singing robot head is a melodious abomination

I Can’t Listen to This Creepy Robot Head Sing Her Head Off

Everything you want to know about the physiology of yodeling

Songify for iPhone: I’m Going to Win a Freaking Grammy For This One

The Matrix Lobby Scene A Capella Style

Ozempic Shreds Bones? How a Small Study Turned Into a Big Health Myth

Anker’s Soundcore Translation Earbuds Are Now Nearly 7x Cheaper Than AirPods Pro 3 After a Sudden Price Drop on Amazon

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Using Emojis at Work? You’re Not Going to Like This Study 😮

A Terrifying Invasion Feels Eerily Familiar in This Short Horror Story

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Singing

This In-Car Karaoke Microphone Gives Strong Singing in the Shower Vibes

An Ancient Breed of Singing Dog Isn’t Extinct in the Wild After All

Utopia Falls Is a Formulaic Dystopian YA Love Letter to Hip-Hop

Why Scientists Trained a Seal to Sing the Star Wars Theme

Silly Video Edits Together Popular Movie Characters to Make Them Sing in the Rain

All the Gear You Need to Throw a Karaoke Party In Your Living Room

This machine sings better than most humans

Listen To The Most Astonishing Musical Style Ever: Throat Singing

Murders, Tsunamis, Bus Singing: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

​America, Why Is Your National Anthem So Goddamn Hard To Sing?

Listen to the awesome cast of The Lion King start singing on a plane

Hugh Jackman Sings About The Challenges Of Playing Wolverine

A simple cure for public speaking anxiety: Get excited

Mice can learn to sing together in harmony

Bring Off-Key Screeching To Your Living Room With This Smartphone Karaoke Machine

Taiwanese singing robot head is a melodious abomination

I Can’t Listen to This Creepy Robot Head Sing Her Head Off

Everything you want to know about the physiology of yodeling

Songify for iPhone: I’m Going to Win a Freaking Grammy For This One

The Matrix Lobby Scene A Capella Style

Ozempic Shreds Bones? How a Small Study Turned Into a Big Health Myth

Anker’s Soundcore Translation Earbuds Are Now Nearly 7x Cheaper Than AirPods Pro 3 After a Sudden Price Drop on Amazon

Volkswagen Shuts Down Tennessee Plant’s EV Production at the Worst Possible Time

Using Emojis at Work? You’re Not Going to Like This Study 😮

A Terrifying Invasion Feels Eerily Familiar in This Short Horror Story

Shark AI Ultra Robot Vacuum at 51% Off Quietly Undercuts Dyson’s Stick Cleaner Prices

Tubi Manages to Turn People Against Recommendations With Bad AI Branding

Gizmodo’s Favorite Photos From NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

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America, Why Is Your National Anthem So Goddamn Hard To Sing?