[SerFox]

I'm a huge fan of gadgets, and being a musician too, they're in plenty supply, but it's not just all music I'm into, but here's a few examples of trinkets I own.

The Tenori-On

http://www.pmtonline.co.uk/media/tenori-on.jpg

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_SGwDhKTrwU

A very pricy gadget, at a whopping £600, people stare at me funny when I ahve this for several reasons. This was designed by the same guy who designed Simtunes, and Elecrtoplankton. This neat little device is a sequencer, One-Hit sampler, drum machine, and all in all very intuitive and crazy instrument. It's not, however, a MIDI controller, though it does do MIDI, and quite well, it's main implementation is to use it as a stand alone device, as I stated, as an instrument. The monome, however, is more of a MIDI controller, and really isn't my thing, and seems too simple and a long way around a simple problem of a sequencer.

The KAOSS Pad mini

http://www.musicgadgets.net/images/lrg_MiniKP.jpg

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2m5J2u5H8C8

A neat little box of tricks, aimed at DJ's, simply a little touchpad effects box this allows you to seriously glitch up sound and play around with it. My best experience of it so far has to be plugging the output of a Mega Drive through this thing, and having someone play the games on it, and then pass the KAOSS Pad around, glitching up the music and sound effects. Yes, we did do Street FIghter II turbo and yes. HADOKEN...KEN...KEN...KENBAKGS&^(F"(^&G(^&T

Blackberry Curve

http://www.techshout.com/images/blac...-curve-big.jpg

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=otd81W0ex1Q

It's a phone with a lot of buttons. Why is this? Because it's awesome. I have full access to the internet, Hotmail, LJ, FA, all my forums, I also get email on there, and a fully working Yahoo Messenger, which doesn't need WiFi. None of it does. The internet is very fast for a handheld deely, the screen is massive, and very clear, which is fantastic for my poor eyesight, and it has a trackball, which is a lot easier to navigate with than up down left right buttons. Oh and it has GPS in it too, with it's own navigator and Google Maps.


What gadgets do you have that you think are cool?


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[szopaw]

I will say only one thing - Japaniese Inventions. You won't get much cooler than a hat with a suction cup for sleeping in public transport. Thank you.

[Lost]

Originally Posted by SerFox

The KAOSS Pad mini

http://www.musicgadgets.net/images/lrg_MiniKP.jpg

Lol my good friend Prancer has one. he DJed with it while I rebooted his system after a crash. Hey are nice little things pricey but cool!

[ToeClaws]

Cool - there's a video of Reznor of NIN using a Tenori-On device.

Got one too - the Fluke Enterprise LANmeter 683:

http://www.ustestmart.com/objects/ca...ge/img1475.jpg

Even used, they can run over $10,000 US. Got to use one on the last job, and it was awesome when it comes to doing... well... anything on an Ethernet network. It can find issues, 'cause issues (for stress testing), test wires, see packet flows to the most minute detail, graph stuff, probe network gear, and on and on. I sorely miss the thing at my current job, but the cost means that few business are willing to buy them. For IT admins though, these things are just amazing tools.

[eternal_flare]

Indeed cool gadgets, but I doubt it would be leading to any innovation...too bad.

[LizardKing]

Originally Posted by ToeClaws

Cool - there's a video of Reznor of NIN using a Tenori-On device.

Got one too - the Fluke Enterprise LANmeter 683:
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Even used, they can run over $10,000 US. Got to use one on the last job, and it was awesome when it comes to doing... well... anything on an Ethernet network. It can find issues, 'cause issues (for stress testing), test wires, see packet flows to the most minute detail, graph stuff, probe network gear, and on and on. I sorely miss the thing at my current job, but the cost means that few business are willing to buy them. For IT admins though, these things are just amazing tools.

*nerdgasm*

[ToeClaws]

Originally Posted by LizardKing

*nerdgasm*

LOL! Yes... oh yes. We also had a Fluke OneTouch:

http://www.ustestmart.com/objects/ca...ge/img1477.gif

Not quite as versatile as the LANmeter, but better for showing visual depictions of the structure of a network that it discovers, and also better for viewing multiple statistics at one. All touchscreen driven. These things run around $6000 US used.

Was a very geektastic feeling to have these and other gear at my desk.

[SerFox]

you call $160 for a KP mini pricy? O.o