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Visualizing Skateboard Tricks with an Ipod

Visualizing Skateboard Tricks with an Ipod

With humble beginnings of strapping an Ipod to the bottom of a skateboard, Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille of Design I/O have created a method to visualize skateboard tricks in real time.

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AudioPail Portable iPhone Speakers in a Lunch Box

AudioPail Portable iPhone Speakers in a Lunch Box

If you’re looking for a nice portable speaker for your iPhone or iPod Touch and are into the retro look of an old lunch box, then you’ll dig AudioPail, a portable speaker solution from Eureka Springs, Arkansas maker Brian Wood.

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iTurntable Digital Music Dock

iTurntable Digital Music Dock

These days there are plenty of tactile input options for the digital DJ that try to recreate the traditional UI. Most of these are newer devices are vestigial rotary encoders tacked onto purpose-built decks. If you’re not a DJ, but would like to recreate the tactile experience of an old phonograph with your digital music device, check out this charming iTurntable iPhone dock from maker Austin Yang.

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How To Turn Your Car’s Ashtray Into a Smartphone Dock

How To Turn Your Car’s Ashtray Into a Smartphone Dock

Your friend and mine, Jason Torchinsky has created another wonderful, simple car hack. This time, he shows you how to convert the ashtray in your car into an iPhone dock. The basic idea is really simple: let’s put an iPhone (or Android) dock inside the little drawer-like ashtray. Let’s get it hooked up to the […]

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Square Reader Plays Audio Tape on iPod Touch

Square Reader Plays Audio Tape on iPod Touch

Using a slightly modified Square mag stripe reader, an RCA MODEL SRT-403 Tape Recorder, an iPod Touch, and requisite audio software, Evan Long got a modern digital media player to record and play back an obsolete paper reel-to-reel format from the late 1940s.

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