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If you’re more reliant on your computer for your digital music than Numark’s standalone DJ products would allow, the company has three new control surfaces to offer.  The MixMeister, OMNI CONTROL and NS7 all offer varying degrees of hands-on tweaking for use in both studio and live situations.  The MixMeister Control is a USB-powered surface that comes [...]

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Numark have taken the wraps off of two new digital DJ products, the HDMIX and the ARC 3.  The former is a complete DJ system in a single box, requiring only powered speakers to complete the setup; sources include an onboard DVD drive also compatible with MP3 CDs and DVDs, an internal hard-drive in a removable [...]

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A team at Oregon State University have apparently taken another step toward giving walking robots a more human-like - and energy efficient - gait, by fitting them with artificial tendons.  Existing robotic limbs struggle to recover energy through a springy gait, but the Oregon team have introduced steel cable tendons and fibreglass springs made from [...]

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Another day, another case for the so-far unofficial iPod nano 4G.  Today it’s a pair of silicon skins from manufacturer Jivo, the box-copy for which proclaims them specially crafted for Apple’s next-gen nano, and from what we can see of the form-factor a decent match for the general consensus around what the upcoming PMP will look [...]

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I’m not sure whether that’s meant to be a weasel or an otter (or a stoat, maybe?), but either way O’Reilly are preparing for a sneaky hacking webcast in which Jonathan Zdziarski will apparently demonstrate a method of bypassing the iPhone’s passcode lock using a custom firmware bundle.  The 45 minute presentation is intended for “law [...]

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It’s not often we see concepts based on peas, but there’s a first time for everything.  Designer Lu Le has borrowed the idea of a pea-pod for this wireless “dynamic audio environment” Pea Speaker system: seven Bluetooth-enabled speaker spheres, that can be distributed around a room for unusual stereo separation.

It’s not envisaged as a surround [...]

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While we first flagged up the Inspiron Mini 9’s upgrade potential earlier this week, Dell have gone one stage further and posted the netbook’s service manual on their site.  Diagrams explain how to dismantle the budget ultraportable, flagging up key components such as the SSD and Bluetooth, as well as highlighting screws and latches.

The Mini [...]

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Folk at avsforum has spotted the long-awaited Blu-Ray Player at CEDIA. If you recall, the company has signed technology agreements with Blu-Ray early this year and started to work on feature set of the unit. Little information has been released to the public since then, and left Oppo fans speculating on company’s direction to [...]

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