Post by Muddy Funkster on Mar 11, 2008 22:39:10 GMT
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A look at the Pacemaker, a 'pocket-size DJ system'
Over the last few days I have been playing with the shiny gizmo you see to the left. It's called the Pacemaker.
The Swedish company behind the gadget, Tonium, call it a 'pocket-sized DJ system'.
And so it is. Or rather, it is 'pocket-sized' for those of us with particularly roomy pockets. But it is undeniably portable, and it is indeed a DJ system.
With a 120GB hard drive, the Pacemaker is a substantial music player - but merely playing your MP3s is not the point. The point is creating mixes of your favourite songs while on the move, beat matching, scratching and (should the opportunity arise) plugging the device into an elite sound system and demonstrating your DJing prowess to a club full of appreciative dancers.
It's got two output channels, two crossfaders, pitch control, equalizers and I'm sure a whole host of other charms that my amateur DJ efforts failed to coax out of it.
The upper circular panel you can see in the image to the right is the display screen, while the lower panel is the touchpad interface. Using the circular touchpad to scratch and pitch bend your music feels nicely authentic (says she who has never intentionally scratched a record in her life).
The strip across the centre of the Pacemaker is the touch-sensitive 'X-fade' crossfader, whose tiny white lights follow the movement of your finger - this looks awesome, and was the first thing I showed off to people whom I wanted to impress.
Retailing at around £400, Pacemakers hardly come at pocket money prices, but then Tonium isn't pushing their gadget as just an MP3-player-with-extras - the Pacemaker is a gadget of a different breed altogether.
The Pacemaker (official site): pacemaker.net/
The Pacemaker in action on YouTube: byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1ph5qNZ0bNoXXPOvo2efHgHWz6jq-EFp8IaFFMHbdlU4_K_ov5lITp1OR8n0EQka7YyxEC2qWQYHA?PARTNER=WRITER
Copied from: msnuktech.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4C05256AF4EFCF9C!1822.entry
A look at the Pacemaker, a 'pocket-size DJ system'
Over the last few days I have been playing with the shiny gizmo you see to the left. It's called the Pacemaker.
The Swedish company behind the gadget, Tonium, call it a 'pocket-sized DJ system'.
And so it is. Or rather, it is 'pocket-sized' for those of us with particularly roomy pockets. But it is undeniably portable, and it is indeed a DJ system.
With a 120GB hard drive, the Pacemaker is a substantial music player - but merely playing your MP3s is not the point. The point is creating mixes of your favourite songs while on the move, beat matching, scratching and (should the opportunity arise) plugging the device into an elite sound system and demonstrating your DJing prowess to a club full of appreciative dancers.
It's got two output channels, two crossfaders, pitch control, equalizers and I'm sure a whole host of other charms that my amateur DJ efforts failed to coax out of it.
The upper circular panel you can see in the image to the right is the display screen, while the lower panel is the touchpad interface. Using the circular touchpad to scratch and pitch bend your music feels nicely authentic (says she who has never intentionally scratched a record in her life).
The strip across the centre of the Pacemaker is the touch-sensitive 'X-fade' crossfader, whose tiny white lights follow the movement of your finger - this looks awesome, and was the first thing I showed off to people whom I wanted to impress.
Retailing at around £400, Pacemakers hardly come at pocket money prices, but then Tonium isn't pushing their gadget as just an MP3-player-with-extras - the Pacemaker is a gadget of a different breed altogether.
The Pacemaker (official site): pacemaker.net/
The Pacemaker in action on YouTube: byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1ph5qNZ0bNoXXPOvo2efHgHWz6jq-EFp8IaFFMHbdlU4_K_ov5lITp1OR8n0EQka7YyxEC2qWQYHA?PARTNER=WRITER
