VowelSynth: Homemade Speech Synth
While this won’t fool your school principal a la Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, it’s still a cool project. This synth has a set of strings attached to DSP chips which “play” a certain sound when struck, or in this case, touched. The resulting music/cacaphony sounds pretty eerie. It works like this: When you lay your…
Koyono BlackCoat: iPod Jacket
I have a lot of issues with iPod coats. What if you quit using iPods? Then you’re stuck with a coat with fast forward buttons and you look—and feel—like a douche when people try to pause you. The Koyono Black Coat line, which runs from $199 to $275, comes with a built-in iPod port with…
Toshiba Dynabook SS MXW
The Toshiba SS MXW—they didn’t want to add TOO many meaningless letters after the name so they stopped with five—is an Intel Core Duo T2300 laptop running at about 1.6-GHz with up to 1GB of memory. It has a 12.1-inch display and weighs a mere 4.2-pounds. Built-in WiFi and a card reader are nice, too,…