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Here’s an interesting example of bastard technology if there ever was one. The Plus Deck Cassette Converter is a front-loading cassette deck that installs directly into your computer, and can convert, edit and play tapes on your PC.

Seats in 5.25″ internal drive bay (the same size as CD/DVD drive)
Not Mac compatible
Engineered with Hi-Fi [...]

Scientists at Australia’s research agency, CSIRO, have created a t-shirt that could be the future of music - or just inspire a lot of lurid pickup lines.
Engineer Dr Richard Helmer, shown making an onanistic pantomime right, led a team of researchers at CSIRO Textiles and Fibre Technology in creating a wearable instrument shirt (WIS!) that [...]

National Public Radio (NPR) plans to create a major digital music service to extend the role that public radio stations, networks and producers currently hold in music discovery. The online store is scheduled to roll out in the first half of 2007.
“From the start, music in all forms has been a cornerstone of public [...]

Rice University scientists have discovered a way to use standard optical microscopes and video cameras to film individual carbon nanotubes, tiny cylinders of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA. The movies show that nanotubes can be “plucked” by individual molecules of water and made to bend like guitar strings.”Nanotubes are fairly stiff, and [...]

Not everyone looks at a vacuum cleaner and “I’m going to turn that mother into a monophonic synthesizer!”
Luckily, Tod E. Kurt thinks different.
Kurt has created RoombaMidi, a Mac OS X application that creates turns the iRobot Roomba roboti vacuum into a MIDI instrument for use by any Mac OS X MIDI sequencer, like Ableton Live, [...]