Watch out, Google. Step aside, Apple. There’s a new way to store and play music, and it also happens to be free. It’s all thanks to Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, and you can be sure that this could be a game changer. Before now, the most popular way to purchase music was to fire up iTunes, pick a few songs, buy ‘em, and store them on your hard drive for playing. But that is so 10 years ago! We now have a plethora of online storage at our disposal, so much, in fact, that companies are giving it away. So why not take advantage of it? Well, Amazon wants to satisfy that demand with the creation of Cloud Drive…

Steve must’ve completely lost it. Not content to leave the z axis uninsulted, it would appear Jobs & Friends are still pursuing ever-slimmer, nigh-paper-thin iDevices, to the point of near lunacy. Check out this new patent, which details the construction of a new headphone jack design which would allow the use of traditional headphones in devices thinner than the adapter itself. Sorcery? Not quite – in all variants of the design, the headphone jack is only partially complete. In one version, a fleible material covers the exposed side of the jack, while in another, two small doors open to…

If you have ever downloaded a music track from Apple iTunes, a few of you might be shocked to know that the quality of the song you have purchased is not the highest possible quality you could receive. Apple and the music industry knows this, and they probably did this from the beginning because of how technology was back nearly a decade ago. But times are different now, and higher quality music is in demand. Disk space is no longer really a concern these days, so why not give people the choice of having the highest possible quality? That is what Apple is asking themselves, and a few people in the music biz…

In a sign that the creativity of people is truly unbound, a guy named BÃ¥rd has designed, printed, and played a guitar that he created entirely on his own. He also is giving away the design for free. And you know what? It looks pretty sweet. Unfortunately, it won’t help anyone play the guitar better. He named this whole project Zoybar Tor, and it looks like nothing more than a slab of material with strings attached, but it is a genuine guitar in the sense of it being, well, a guitar. In the video, BÃ¥rd is clearly rocking the hell out of this thing, and it sounds pretty good to me. Did we mention he open sourced…

Tech-savvy folk the world over, stand up and show your propers – for the first time in history, a video game theme song has won a Grammy. No, the recipient isn’t Nobuo Uematsu (of Final Fantasy fame), and not even Koji Kondo (quick, think of any videogame song – chances are it was written by or derived from Kondo), but relative newcomer Christopher Tin, for his composition Baba Yetu. Sound familiar? It’s the theme to Civilization IV. Why is Tin winning a Grammy for it six years later? Because only now has he released it properly, on his album Calling All Dawns. Congratulations Tin, and may your victory…

A man much more brilliant than I once said that you must adapt or die to succeed in business. Warner Music Group’s (WMG) sales have dropped 14 percent while digital sales fell 5 percent in the past three months alone. Clearly, WMG is going for suicide. It’s not a shocking announcement. The big labels are struggling to find their mojo. They will blame piracy, of course, but the truth is that artists are beginning to see the light. They are beginning to understand that they can do it without the labels and that social media and the Internet is the way to fame and fortune. Perhaps Amazon will do to the music…

Among the list of things I believe I can speak on behalf of everyone at Techi about, it’s that we were probably never going to talk about popular rapper and pop culture curiosity T-Pain. Colour us all the most vibrant hues of wrong. Pouring his poetic mastery of the English language into Twitter’s loving arms, T-Pain has made the world privvy to his newest tattoo: the Facebook Like button. There’s not much to say about this, beyond a well-deserved, wide-eyed ‘wow’ of disbelief. “I think this ones pretty sweet,” claims T-Pain’s tweet, “unless facebook shuts down soon 0_o”. It’s a good bet you’re safe…

It would seem that there is no lack of creativity and imagination on the Web these days, especially when it comes to video. Mateusz Zdziebko shows why with a video he created taking everyday objects that you might find in your room and creating a whole musical assembly with them. He even created a video to go along with it. And while the idea isn’t particularly original, the result is still awesome. Check out “Sampled Room” and let us know what you think. …

The Sonos Multi-Room Music System allows you to extend your music’s reach to several rooms in a snap. The Sonos S5, ZoneBridge, and Controller 200 all make up an elaborate system that can take your home audio to the next level. It not only gives you the power to extend your musical collection to several rooms, but it also gives you access to so many incredible sources of music while providing numerous well-executed ways to control it as well. The S5 has a vague resemblance to an iPod dock. Coming in at 14-inches wide, 8-inches tall, and 4-inches deep, it is relatively small, but it’s what’s inside that…

Say what you will about these kids’ moral characters, but this is kind of clever. Uploading music to the iTunes store, a group of UK teens has been accused of using stolen credit cards to download their own tracks thousands of times – ultimately reaping almost £500,000 (almost $775,000!) in royalties. One teen has already claimed responsibility for 2000 of the 6000 song downloads, and the rest of the group is slated to appear in court beginning January 25th. Like I said – I don’t pretend to endorse the actions of these kids. Credit card fraud is bad, and wrong, and all that. But damn, as far as iTunes…