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By fear Liszewski

Designed for students acquisition twine and progress instruments, not talent-challenged imbibe stars, the PT-7 from Tascam combines a high-speed chestnut receiver with a caretaker designate to hold anticipative musicians encounter their pitch, an electronic metronome with rates from 30 to 300bpm in sextet instance signatures and a base monaural functionary for capturing performances. There’s a built-in organism that crapper be used for activity backwards recordings or land to the metronome, but a headphone diddley is also provided if you poverty to primed things private. $99 acquirable from Tascam dealers sometime in October.

[ PR - Tascam Announces PT-7 Chromatic Tuner/Recorder ] VIA [ Fareastgizmos ]

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It’s been nearly three years since the Onyx tickled our imagination, but Pilotfish is looking to completely melt our brains with its latest concept. The Munich-based industrial design firm has just introduced its Ondo music editing mobile, which is half cellphone, half music mixer and thoroughly amazing. In theory, the phone would boast a small mixing panel, three removable recording sticks with internal memory and a bendable center to give music lovers the ability to insert pitch bends and relieve stress. Essentially, the trio of OLED-infused sticks serves two purposes: when installed, they’re the main phone panel, and when removed, they can be clipped onto instruments for recording purposes. Afterwards, they can be swapped with other Ondo owners or edited on the fly right on the device itself. Needless to say, there’s a better shot at you winning the lottery than seeing this thing hit mass production, but you can feel free to dream by checking the full release, Q&A and demonstration video just past the break.
Gallery: Pilotfish’s Ondo music editing mobile concept puts new twist on smartphones

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By Andrew Liszewski

GigaPan has updated their robotic camera mount line with the new Epic 100 which can now support a camera and lens combination of up to 3lbs, accommodating larger P&S models and smaller DSLRs. Other notable upgrades include a backlit display making it easier to setup the mount for night-time panoramas, an adjusted gearing pitch allowing for “greater holding torque and finer precision movements” and most importantly, the ability to capture multiple shots (up to 9) at each image location, facilitating those who like to take HDRI photos.

Of course if you read my review of the GigaPan Epic, you’ll know that while it’s a must-have tool for any photographer who’s into the whole panoramic thing, the battery life was lacking at best. And given the Epic 100 will be moving around heavier cameras on the same set of 6 x AA batteries, I have to assume the battery life situation isn’t any better, but hopefully not any worse.

[ GigaPan Epic 100 ] VIA [ Wired Gadget Lab ]

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We’ve already seen a number of mainstays in the turntable game crank out decks that easily archive vinyl records to MP3, and now we’ve got a new pair from Stanton making that same claim. The T.92 and T.55 USB turntables each feature USB and S/PDIF outputs and come bundled with Cakewalk Pyro Audio Creator and Audacity software. On the hardware front, you’ll find an S-Shaped tone arm for lower distortion and reduced record wear along with a built-in DSP with key lock for controlling tempo without affecting pitch. As for differences, the T.55 is a belt-drive turntable that features a straight tone arm, while the T.92 touts a high-torque direct drive motor. Check ‘em both right now at popular music retailers across the globe for $299 (T.92) and $199 (T.55). Full release is after the break.
Gallery: Stanton’s T.55 and T.92 USB turntables take vinyl to MP3 sans fuss

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For those of you who think knowing the miles per hour of each pitch is the best part of a baseball game — and sometimes, it really is — Clemson University civil engineering professor Scott Schiff and his students have created a system that’ll measure the force of the dunks and display it on the overhead screens instantly. In one game against East Carolina, Clemson forward Raymond Sykes managed a dunk that measured 30 G’s — which we’re told is mighty impressive, but really, we don’t have much comparison at this point. The team hopes its system gets adopted for other venues, and for sake of having more excuses to stare at the giant TVs and not the court, we hope so, too. Hit up the read link to see video of the system in action.

[Via PhysOrg]
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It’s no mind reader, but MIT researchers Brandon Taylor and Michael Bove’s “bar of soap” device should be able to tell you what gadget you’re pretending to use based on how you hold it. Loaded with 72 capacitive sensors and a three-axis accelerometer, the prototype has a small screen that says what it believes you’re pantomiming — camera, phone, PDA, gamepad, and remote control are demonstrated in the accompanying video. In a slightly more realistic / entertaining example, a baseball is stuffed with sensors and used to determine what kind of pitch you’ve. Bove speculates the idea could potentially be used for high-tech golf clubs that tell you how incorrectly you’re holding it or power tools that don’t work unless you’re gripping it the right way, and while we’re sure there’s other, more beneficial uses, we’re really looking forward to figuring out why we always seem to slice right.