Are you about ready to throw your car stereo in the trash? You’re about to be. Students Robbin Ingvarsson and Waldemar Wegelin have designed what they hope to be the next revolution in in-car audio – and from the looks of things, they’ve pretty much got it in the bag. Soundtracks is a system that takes input from your car to design on the fly a soundtrack that reacts according to the action on the road, as well as the environment in which you’re driving. The resulting synaesthetic experience is nothing short of brilliant What about your favourite tunes? Surely you’re not going to throw your classic jams…

This futuristic-looking device is the Brailect. It is designed to be worn on the hand/arm and fits almost like a glove. It allows users to translate any text into Braille and the device even has a feature to turn text into audio. This concept is a great idea because even though books are now made in Braille, the number of publications available are limited. After doing some research, the difference between regular books and versions in Braille is significantly different. Regular text books are available absolutely everywhere but Braille versions are a lot harder to find. Most are sold through…

Surely sometimes even the most digitally-addicted of us wants to ditch the cold machination of musical convenience that is iTunes and put in a little elbow grease – y’know, work for our music. Audio engineering company GGRP Sound’s latest advertising mailer harkens back to an older time, a simpler time. A time when sound reproduction was powered by a crank….