If you’ve been waiting to take the plunge with Ableton Live but couldn’t quite shell out the cash, Ableton wants to talk to you: the new Ableton Live LE runs US$149-199 and includes a pretty significant portion of the features in the full version. This is not “Live Lite”, the stripped-down version that is bundled […]

Wow. Pretty nerdy sounding, but this technology is quite impressive, and could be incredibly useful for aspect ratio conversion, object removal, rescaling, etc. The object removal is very very impressive. I can think of a bunch of interesting uses for this, especially if you artificially mess with the weights for effect only. Id love to […]

The Keepon is a cute, yellow robot that dances to music you may have seen bopping on YouTube. It shows how subtle changes could make robotics friendlier in the near future. Foremost among those changes: show a little skin. By wrapping the robot’s armature with soft, rubber skin, the Keepon is both squeezable and more […]

Apple’s latest GarageBand 08 is nothing if not pretty. It remains a fun way for Mac users to get their feet wet in music making, and hopefully, simple as it is, something like Magic GarageBand will include users to brave the GarageBand icon that comes factory-installed on their Macs. But what about serious music making? […]

M-.-n aka discodirt from Arkaos land shares what happens with a camera with a dead CCD. I love (digital) trash: The camera in question is an old, “crappy” Minolta DiMAGE X20. See, why can’t my gear break in interesting ways? All I get is something that refuses to turn on or a tape eject mechanism […]

3D goodness means getting cozy with your local graphics API — and getting ready to nerd out in a big way. OpenGL continues to progress with a major overhaul. It’s a way off, but you’ve still got lots of eye candy with OpenGL 2.1. So … if you’re not Electronic Arts or Bungie, is there […]

One of the reasons I decided against the Panasonic HVX-200 when choosing my HD camera was that there wasn’t OSX software to import P2 cards. This has now changed with Panasonic releasing P2 Contents Management Software for Mac. A little late, and you probably already heard this via HD for Indies. You read HD4NDS, right?

While touring around and using my mobile phone for internet I couldn’t really watch much online video. No DeK, no Motionographer, no VJKungFu, no YouTube! So Atomic Afro’s Post your music video playlists thread on CreateDigitalNoise is a great welcome back to broadband. Afro has an impressive 118 videos in his list right now. I […]

Every time you say you don’t believe in visualists, a bulb dies. Photo by -cr. In an informal poll of a variety of people, I’ve been unable to get agreement on a pretty fundamental question in projection: Is it bad for a projector to hang it vertically? For instance, to project on the floor, your […]

As readers look for the ideal mobile recording device, we’ve had ongoing, vibrant discussion about the Zoom H4. Its built-in stereo mic pair, real XLR jacks, and low price are big pluses — enough so that at least some are willing to overlook fidgety mic level settings. But one major problem could be a deal-breaker: […]