we love ThinkGeek and their unique instrument tee series
please welcome the latest mamber of this wicked family
the synthesizer shirt
real playable music synthesizer on your shirt
five different pro-quality sampled instruments
up to eight keys can be played at once (polyphony FTW!)
here is a little demo

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this little monster wa sthe funkiest find at the MusikMesse
this is the Korg Monotron, a brand new pocket size analogue synth
the little noisemaker is about the size of a cigarettebox

the features

- full-fledged, true analog synthesizer: VCO, VCF, LFO
- inspiring, easy-to-play ribbon keyboard
- features the classic analog filter of the legendary Korg MS-10 & MS-20
- filter any external source using the audio input jack
- LFO can modulate either pitch of filter cutoff
- LFO Rate knob features cool LED visual indicator.
- battery operation and palmtop size equals true portability
- internal speaker/headphone jack lets you enjoy the sound anywhere

as you see the Monotron is far more than just a keychain toy
I could imagine that this will be a new classic

In the late 60s, a British man with funny hair invented a cheap, handheld synthesizer that plays by running a little electronic pen across a little keyboard. Despite sounding like a musical greeting card that’s been through the microwave a couple of times, the Stylophone captured the imagination of some of the most notable musical weirdoes, among them David Bowie or Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk.

In this video the Motherboard team meets up with the Stylophone’s creator, some of its recent revivalists like Little Boots and the Stylophone Orchestra Of Great Britain, and try to figure out how this plucky little box sealed its place in the pantheon of great, obnoxious instruments.

Motherboard heads deep into the bowels of Moby’s Manhattan apartment-studio, where he unveils his prized assemblage of rarified gadgets, bizarre synthesizers, and outré drum devices.

if you ever spent even a minute trying to make grooves, you gotta watch this!!
THX Moby, THX Motherboard!

Calvin Harris performs a version of his new single Ready For The Weekend on a unique human synthesiser. The instrument employs 15 bikini clad models painted with Bare Conductive, a new skin safe ink which conducts electricity. When the performers touch the connection completes a circuit, triggering a sound.

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NESynth is a virtual synthesizer which resembles old-shchool video game sounds. A supergeek app for supergeek musicians :) WANT!!

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.

Directed by: Filippe Lyra & William Paiva
Produced by: Barros Melo Animation Studio
Director of photography: Filippe Lyra & William Paiva

velosynth is speed/tone
you actually make the sound with this thing! ;)

geek cuties are the bests
so after the pul(sew)idth we give you more retro synth pillow action
please meet the softmachines
they come from Berlin and these babies look rad
original german cuddle engineering
they are perfect for a sweet disco nap