Beat Kangz launches the Beat Thang music production system that comes with over 3000 sounds and hundreds of production-ready beats, patterns and loops. The device features fully functioning Digital EFX (EQ, Compression, Reverb, Delay, Filter..etc), 16 layers of velocity sensitivity for emotive performance, Realtime Sequencer and onboard sampler & resampler. The Beat Thang has a [...]

Pandora has it’s sights set on a variety of options for in-car music streaming. The news comes straight from Pandora’s Chief Technology Officer, who told attendees at the SF Music Tech Summit that the company is working with car manufacturers to more thoroughly integrate Pandora into vehicles. Apparently the first thing they are concentrating on [...]

By now almost everybody on the planet should know that the iPhone is a very music-oriented phone, but how much more music-oriented can it get? Well, check out this video where an ensemble actually uses a whole bunch of iPhones to play some real music. It does make you wonder what people will do with [...]

The Mint Robot Music Tank you see here might look menacing, but fret not – it won’t crush the iPod as well as its ilk anytime soon, although you do get some added smarts with this. After all, this player/speaker concept is full well capable of tracking humans thanks to its pyroelectric sensor, where it [...]

Ever wanted to have a mini turntable to satisfy all your DJ fantasies? Well, check out the Touchtable design by those folks over at Yanko Design. It’s so small that you’ll have to use your fingers to operate. It’s sensitive to touch and pressure and you’ll be able to use it in combination with the [...]

iRiver offers in Japan the limited edition Hello Kitty Music player CRYSTAL model MP3 player that is covered with CRYSTALLIZED – Swarovski Elements crystals. Like the Black Hello Kitty player, this Swarovski player supports MP3 and WMA files. It has 2GB capacity.Only 200 units are available and each costs 13,800 Yen.[iriver]

iRiver Japan is going to release the Hello Kitty Music Player PREMIUM that comes in Black. The player has 4GB internal memory and uses USB 2.0 interface. It supports MP3 and WMA audio files. The Black Hello Kitty player measures just 45.2×17×35.5mm and weighs 16g only. It will be released on 18 December for 7890 [...]

Strapya’s back with the Music Card MP3 Player, and as you can tell by its name, it is nearly as thin as a regular ATM card despite packing in enough technology and memory to store 2GB worth of MP3s and WMAs. Since it comes in such a compact mode, Strapya is more or less forced [...]

Fitting your home or office with a multi-zone digital music system can be a very expensive proposition. The music server alone often costs thousands of dollars not counting installing speakers and wiring. CasaTunes today has unveiled a pair of new music servers that are low profile. The servicer both allow the streaming of music from [...]

Olive’s Opus No. 4 is getting an update, The 4HD looks similar to it’s predecessor, but this 2TB music server now features 24-bit sound and a 192kHz sample rate thanks to a Burr-Brown PCM1792A DAC, which will deliver about 250 times the resolution of a CD. You’ll also get a gigabit Ethernet port and an [...]