Category: Gadgets and Tech

Eighties style ghetto blasters seem to be one of the most covetable sound design items of the moment, and the more garish the better. There are plenty of fun options for adapting your MP3 player or iPod into a full scale portable speaker system, and Fred Flare have thrown out another for the Christmas gift market.

This version is lightweight, affordable and looks great too. Opting for a more cartoonish representation of the must have breakdancing sound system, this is a really great gift idea for enthusiasts of eighties style. The spec includes adapters for different sized iPods (free with purchase), mic input, 12W speakers and a built in radio and clock.

It’s available online from Fred Flare now for $249.

Find out more from the website

We got very excited when we first heard about it – and now iStylophone is available to download for your iPhone.

If you missed it first time around, this is a detailed recreation of the classic Stylophone – the original consumer-friendly electronic keyboard – for use on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Which means you get the same look, the same switches to flick and above all, the same monophonic synth sounds.

It’s been used on recordings by the likes of David Bowie, Brett Domino, Erasure, Hexstatic, Kraftwerk, Marilyn Manson, Orbital, Pulp, The Raconteurs, They Might Be Giants and most famously of all, David Bowie on Space Oddity. And you can use it yourself this very day. Download it from the Apple app store for a bargain £3.49.

Find out more at the iStylophone website