Sonos and Google Play Nice
By Jason Epstein Owners of Sonos wireless speakers are typically a proud bunch who tout its excellent sound quality and app-integration. And there’s good news for them – Google Play and Sonos are finally starting to play nice with each other. Now you can open Google Play Music and stream it to your Sonos speaker
Coachella Upgrades with Apple’s iBeacon Technology
By Carolyn Heneghan Coachella has announced that it will bring some of the latest in Apple technology to its festival attendees: iBeacon. The iBeacon is a small device that communicates with iPhones via Bluetooth to deliver proximity-based information, navigation, and notifications. On the official Coachella app, an update on April 9th says, “Enable On-site iBeacon notifications
Arturia Brings Audiobus 2 to iSEM Synth App
By Ruben Lone Now that Audiobus has announced its newest update, allowing inter-app presets to be saved and recalled, soft and hardware instrument maker Arturia has adopted the new technology for its iSEM mobile synth. Made specifically for iPad, iSEM is an impressive digital reconstruction of Oberheim’s 1974 SEM synthesizer. Praise for the device’s accurate
Grab A Gralbum: A Combinative Format Of Music, Media, and Stories
By Kira Grunenberg It’s almost ironic that the touchscreen device, a modern day tool so devoid of physical direction or instruction, has become such a well of potential for changing human perception. This flat, innocent-looking machine has prompted a wave of hybrid artistic formats that combine mediums nearly as old as life itself. We have
Watch SK Telecom’s Telephone Orchestra
Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom is celebrating its 30 years of cellular mobile computing. To highlight the history of their company, they’ve created an orchestra comprising mobile and cordless phones they’ve supported for the last three decades. Shown in the video below, the programming and execution is pretty fascinating, and certainly nostalgic.
Automatic Apps Could Save Lives, But Are Still Kind of Creepy
By Jason Epstein If the financial and logistical cost of outfitting every audible alarm with a visual detector for the deaf (and vice versa for the blind) wasn’t somewhere beyond astronomical and impossible, the world would be doing right by our disabled brothers and sisters. But until that happens, we turn to apps that automatically