My parents gave me a $15 iTunes gift card for my birthday back in March. I don’t buy AAC music from the iTunes Store, so to be honest I kinda forgot until I found it in my wallet and decided to rent a movie tonight. I got Starship Troopers, which I’d actually never seen. (I […]
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Mmmm…daddy wants….
MachineCollective is making modular interfaces for DIY hardware. Mmmmmm. In spite of all the smart, multifunctional and state-of-the-art controllers that are commercially available today, there has always been demand for custom physical interfaces and specialized controllers. That’s why we have developed a modular prototyping platform. The prototyping modules are aimed at researchers, artists, musicians, circuitbenders […]
Dreams, Seen By Man-Made Machines
I’ve been writing my first algorithmic music composition tool in Processing. It’s not terribly complex, though it has stretched my understanding of Java a bit, which is nice. Basically, it loads an array of the steps of a scale — for example, a minor scale is [0,2,3,5,7,8,10,12] steps from the root note. Then you feed […]
Korg Nano Controllers: October?
This site has more news on the Korg Nano music controllers I mentioned a couple of days ago. Apparently they’re scheduled for October 2008. It says they’re going to be £59 for the Nanokontrol and Nanopad and £49 for the Nanokey. I’m hoping they’ll be the same amount in Yanqui dollars — $120 and $100 […]
Spore
I’m not really much of a gamer. I was when I was a kid, back in the Stone Age, and I’ve had my periods of obsessive game play as an adult, though it was more linked to specific games (Half-Life, American McGee’s Alice, GTA: Vice City, Tomb Raider) than to a desire to game in […]
On the GMF and the Singularity
Here’s something I wrote on Whitechapel, Warren Ellis’s message board, in the context of a discussion about the Singularity that I started. I thought it would be worth posting here, as it explains some of my earlier thoughts. My whole point with the Grim Meathook Future thing was that, despite what us nerds would like […]
OMFG: Korg nanoKEY, nanoKONTROL, nanoPAD
Over at Create Digital Music, Peter’s got some early info on Korg’s new line of MIDI controllers for laptop musicians. The keys on the nanoKEY are even supposed to be velocity sensitive. This is literally what I’ve been dreaming of having for years — little controllers you can shove in your bag and use on […]
Tech Prediction Of The Day
As ultraportables, UMPCs, MIDs and futurephones get more prevalent, we’re soon going to see companies selling portable LCD monitors — basically, laptop monitors without the laptops, probably stored in tasteful leather / vinyl cases with a little padding to protect them that flip open to serve as a stand to prop the monitor up. Maybe […]
Holographic Telepresence
The Musion Eyeliner is a high definition holographic video projection system allowing spectacular 3-dimensional moving images to appear within a live stage setting using Peppers Ghost technology. Eyeliner brings dramatic, previously unseen 21st century video film effects to live events, including audiovisual artistic performances, conference or trade show presentations, retail displays and large-scale digital signage. […]
I Saw My First Asus EEE 901 Today…
…and I still can’t beat down my hard-on. That thing is amazing. I want one so bad. Especially as my MBP is showing wear and tear — I hate to throw the thing in my bag nowadays, especially as I don’t do much heavy lifting, computer wise, when I’m out and about. The EEE would […]