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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Caught on Video Edition

In today’s Remainders: video! And in many cases, things caught on video for the first time, like Samsung’s E6 and E101 ebook readers, Apple’s $1 billion data center, Big Bloom’s “miraculous” fuel cell, and a modern day Superman. Stylish Stylus We got a look at Samsung’s ebook readers—the E6 and the E101—back at CES, but…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 22

iPhone Finding App Better Suited As Whistle-Activated Whoopee Cushion

“Where Is My Phone” is a clever little app designed to help you locate your misplaced iPhone simply by whistling. But I think we can agree that there are better uses for whistle-triggered sound effect playback than finding your phone. Turning your iPhone into a remote controlled whoopee cushion is what I had in mind.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 3

Gigantic Music Box Is Finally Finished With Nowhere To Go

Henry Dagg spent four years building this gigantic pin barrel harp, commissioned for a London garden. It’s finally finished but is too fragile for the outdoors. Listen to it play "A Long and Winding Road" and reflect on its fate. Dagg, a former sound engineer for the BBC and self-styled sound sculptor, received a £56,000…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 30

Mugen Pop Pop Infinite Bubble Wrap Now on iPhones

Bandai first brought the pleasure of regular bubble wrap to your keychain with its Mugen Pop Pop Toy. And now, in case you don’t bring your keys everywhere, they’ve put it on the iPhone too! https://gizmodo.com/mugen-pop-pop-infinite-bubble-wrap-toy-hits-the-us-5071681 The iPhone app, which is free, gives you three different Mugen Pop Pop play modes: normal, repeat and scramble.…

Tech News Elaine Chow Mar 27

Hard Drive Failure Soundboard Guarantees Debilitating Flashbacks

Data recovery service Datacent has put together an extensive collection of recordings of popular hard drives failing. This might sound pretty boring, but it isn’t just bunch of typical of click-click-bzzzzz heartbreakers — a lot of these sounds are downright bizarre. Who knew that Maxtor drives play a song when their spindles fail? Or that…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 12

Star Trek Tribble Replica Wriggles and Coos, Won’t Over-Run Your Home

A six-inch furry toy that vibrates and makes the genuine cooing sounds of the Tribbles from Star Trek… probably something to not buy if you’ve got predatory cats around the place. You never know though, since these electronic replicas have a “Klingon mode” where they get truly battle-agitated, and that might put the wind up…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 7

AMK is Lego-Like Digital Instrument For Your Kids, Ear-Ache For You

The AMK (that’s Alle Meine Klänge) looks something like the bastard offspring of Lego and a Guitar-Hero controller, with a few extra digital sprinklings thrown in. The idea is that its different modules can be plugged together in many ways to produce music: some have sound effects, others record incoming sounds and replay them and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 1

The Scifi Sound Effects That Take Over Your Brain

Even if you just hear a science fiction movie or TV show playing in another room, you’ll instantly recognize it thanks to the weird sounds of alien spaceships and laser weapons. No genre of entertainment has ever challenged sound-effects designers as much as SF. We’ve gone through some of scifi’s most identifiable and iconic sounds…

io9 Kevin Kelly Apr 11

Windows XP Sounds On the Piano

If you thought that half hour you spent digging stuff out of various parts of your body was a waste of time, check out what this guy figured out how to play on his synth piano. Yeah, it’s Windows noises. His professors at Juilliard are so proud. Money well spent, Mom! How to play Windows…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 3

Razz Software And Headset

If you spent a lot of time pretending you were Larvell Jones growing up, or you carry Mr T In Your Pocket wherever you go, we’re guessing you’re exactly the kind of person Phonebites Inc’s targeting with their Razz Software and Razz Headset. Both of them let you load sound clip collections (what they call…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 28

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Caught on Video Edition

iPhone Finding App Better Suited As Whistle-Activated Whoopee Cushion

Gigantic Music Box Is Finally Finished With Nowhere To Go

Mugen Pop Pop Infinite Bubble Wrap Now on iPhones

Hard Drive Failure Soundboard Guarantees Debilitating Flashbacks

Star Trek Tribble Replica Wriggles and Coos, Won’t Over-Run Your Home

AMK is Lego-Like Digital Instrument For Your Kids, Ear-Ache For You

The Scifi Sound Effects That Take Over Your Brain

Windows XP Sounds On the Piano

Razz Software And Headset

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