Someone Actually Made a Fully Playable Banjo From a Party Balloon
I’ll be honest: the first time I saw images of Co:Creation Lab’s Balloon Banjo, I laughed. Not in a dismissive way, but in the way…
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Razer’s Pompompurin Kraken Kitty V2 headphones Brings Sanrio charm to gaming
Razer is adding another Sanrio character to its growing lineup of gaming accessories, this time giving Pompompurin the starring role on its Kraken Kitty V2…
Madkids Empire Is Turning Intimidating Synth Gear Into Pure Play
Most musical instruments communicate one thing very clearly before you even touch them: you have to earn this. The arrangement of knobs, the wall of…
Someone Built a LEGO Bedside Radio With 1,400 Bricks And Inner Circuitry
Remember when clock radios had personality? Before phones ate every function a bedside table used to need, you had this chunky little box with dials…
PAC-MAN Shrank Into a Tiny $28 Synthesizer and It Actually Works
Some crossovers make obvious sense. Some don’t. The Otamatone Melody PAC-MAN is the rare kind that manages to be both completely absurd and entirely logical…
If the iPod Nano and Game Boy had a baby, you’d get this $85 Hi-Fi Audio Player
The dedicated music player had a solid twenty-year run: Walkmans, MiniDiscs, the Rio PMP300 (look it up), the iPod in all its generations, and the…
Nobody Designed a Drum Kit for Beginners. Until Boxboom.
Picking up the drums has always come with a quiet, frustrating tax. Before you’ve played a single beat, you’re already being asked to make a…
Tablets Sound Bad, So Motorola Just Put 9 JBL Speakers in One
Entertainment tablets have come a long way in terms of screen quality, but audio often tells a different story. Most of them ship with a…
The $599 AI Guitar That Finally Makes Playing Easy
At some point in their life, almost everyone has picked up a guitar, struggled with a C chord for ten minutes, and quietly put it…
3D-Printed Ukulele Transforms Into an Electric Guitar In Just 2 Seconds
Every kid who grew up watching cars turn into robots has a soft spot for things that are not what they seem. Musician and maker…
Gen Z Is Buying Old iPods to Quit Spotify. Fiio’s $50 Hi-Fi MP3 Player Does It Better.
I tried to listen to an album last week. The whole thing, start to finish, like a functioning adult in the 90s. I made it…
This $60 Apple Watch Case Is the iPod Apple Never Replaced
There’s a specific kind of nostalgia attached to the original iPod’s click wheel that has very little to do with the music. It had to…