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Gadgets The future of digital music is almost here. Please have your credit card ready. The music industry is taking the first small, yet irrevocable, step toward changing how you listen to and share...
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Gadgets Congress could soon end the five-year debate over digital music copyright. Files. That's what the mp3 format turned music into: digital files that are compressible, reproducible, sharable and,...
View ArticleBeyond the Music
Filling all that capacity with multimedia content Slideshow: The Assistant The Polymath The Photographer The Musician… Slideshow: The Assistant The Polymath The Photographer The Musician…
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The Future of The Body: The Soundtrack
Science Download five free original songs inspired by this issue, then burn them to a CD and cut out the CD-case cover art below Last February, PopSci added a new name to its list of contributors:...
View ArticleHacking the Zune
DIY A few tweaks can turn Microsoft's MP3 player into the device it was supposed to be Until it went on sale last November, Microsoft's Zune was heralded as the first true iPod-killer. But with its...
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New Nokia Phones to Debut
Gadgets The Finnish handset maker plans to roll out a range of new phones in the U.S. Nokia indicated today that it intends to release a bunch of new phones through U.S. carriers in the next few...
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Build a Wireless Audio Streamer
Gadgets With a DIY audio streamer, you can send your favorite tunes wirelessly from your computer to other rooms Here’s the scenario: You have a thousand MP3 music files sitting on your home...
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Cyborg Update: Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids Add iPod Input To Your Skull
Science The Sydney Morning Herald reports today on an Aussie man who traveled all the way to Beverly Hills to receive bone-anchored hearing aids, which are implanted behind the ear… The Sydney Morning...
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Smoke/Laser Microphone Captures "Pure Sound" With No Interference
Science Technological advances have brought audio recording a long way over the past several decades, but, as with so many things, microphone recording is limited by the very… Technological advances...
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