SATY MP3  
CES has big, fancy products like the new Palm OS, and then they have stuff like this. In a little pod in the Sands, a Chinese company called SATY is showing this rather blocky music and video player with some unusual features. It’s got a flashlight. It’s got a radio. It’s got a [...]

 
perCushion Pillow 
Urban Tool already impressed us with their line of futuristic gadget holders. This time they’ve added a set of stereo Bluetooth speakers and music controls to a pillow.

 
South Korea’s LG Electronics unveiled what it described as the world’s first watch-shaped mobile video phone.

Harp Chair
This is a massage chair, but a massage chair completely unlike those that they feature in the doorway of Brookstone stores in the mall to lure you inside. No, this one is made of wood, and it has a giant harp on the back. Yep, it gives you a harp-based acoustic massage.

Ode to Joy
Terrific musical Muppet performance. Second video after the jump.
 

 An amazing music video
This Russian musician presents a new style and sets a new standard for playing stringed instruments. Second video after the jump.
 

A new pair of jeans was on my shopping list for Christmas. I was on the lookout for something new and innovative when a friend recommended that I have a look at the new Levi’s Redwire DLX Jeans.

 
Listen up all you hardcore heavy metal music fans! A new study has shown that head banging at just the right angle may cause damage to your health.

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It isn’t that hard to imagine music coming from shoes, but there is usually a person wearing the shoes and using the shoes to make the music. Still an innovative person, Ingrid Bachmann, created the Symphony For 54 Shoes out of 27 pairs of recycled shoes.

 
 Harion Glass Speakers
Appearances are always deceptive, what we see isn’t always how it’s meant to be. Similarly, this speaker setup made in glass isn’t at all fragile like the glass itself.

More videos on Zoybar
Zoybar is a modular hardware platform for creating custom electric string instruments and effects invented by Ziv bar ilan in Isreal. The basic Zoybar kits enable people to assemble a variety of electric string instruments that can be mounted with different sound effects. Second video after the jump.

 
Boom Bench 
We have earlier introduced you to the best multimedia chairs that audiophiles would love to sit on. Now, we have a bench for them. German designer Michael Schoner of NL Architects has ingeniously designed a bench that plays music from mobile phones via Bluetooth.

 
This XPod active speaker is so small, you could carry it around in your pocket and hardly know it’s there. Just a third of an inch thick, the three-inch wide enclosure contains a couple of speakers and a minuscule 2-channel 770mW amplifier. It charges up with USB, and look at that little slot in the [...]

And You Thought Bad Cell Phone Ring Tones Were A Distraction At Work
Sometimes you just get the urge to dance. Problem is, last time you had that urge you came out of your Saturday Night Fever daydream and found all of your cubicle mates staring at you. Now you’re known as “that guy who shakes [...]

Lucky for us there is many different Genres
Listening to your favorite music may be good for your cardiovascular system. Researchers have shown for the first time that the emotions aroused by joyful music have a healthy effect on blood vessel function…

Now thats a tea kettle
You haven’t forgotten about the classic kitchen kettle, I’m sure. You know, that thing that whistles when your water is boiled. It’s a pretty basic design that hasn’t really changed. At least, until now. This Harmonica Kettle has a built-in harmonica, as the name implies, instead of the typical whistle.

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A face driven by music – Video 3
This video was created by sound artist, Daito Manabe, front man to the Face Visualizer designed by Masaki Teruoka and built by Katsuhiko Harada. No, the music is not controlled by facial contortions. Rather, Daito-san’s face is twisted to the music via electrical-pulse stimulation — 10 channels in [...]

Electronic Trumpet Powered By Humming
The EZ-TP Electronic Teaching Trumpet from Yamaha is now available in Japan. Sorry rest of the world. You’re going to have to wait to get your lips on this one. It’s a digital way to learn the trumpet and share and save your MIDI-produced songs to your computer. The EZ-TP trumpet [...]

 The Stylish New iBangle
 It might take a few years (or decades) for this iBangle design concept to end up on your wrist, but for the time being, we can stare in astonishment at its ambitious design. You see that blue inner band? Push a tiny button on the side and it fills with air, expanding [...]

 
 
Most tech conferences like whiz!-bang! gadgets, but this week’s Pop!Tech conference highlights the deeper trends in silicon’s disruptive march through contemporary society.

The final countdown
Strange instrument, even stranger vocalist. It combines a tiny piano with a ukulele and a kazoo. Even stranger instrument video after the jump
 

Crazy DJ
Here’s your chance to learn the fine art of total self-control from this radio DJ who stays on air, no matter what. Second video after the jump.

 
Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right [...]

 
What will the retail storefront of the future look like?
Recently, Thomas Frey and his wife Deb were relaxing at a new shopping center in the Denver area. Along the sidewalks a series of speakers cast a rather pleasant musical backdrop to the shopping experience. Thomas Frey, Executive Director of the DaVinci Institute went onto talk [...]

 
 Sound Chair
Although this chair looks like it’s made from LEGO, designer Matthew Plummer Fernandez actually used a much more geeky material in building it: sound waves. The Sound/Chair has contours that precisely match sound waves mapped on a 3D graph of volume (height), frequency (depth), and time (width).  We love the purple color, too (but [...]