Who needs real musical instruments when you have something ‘smarter’? Metro rounds up the latest in high-tech musical gadgetry: from pocket-sized synthesizers, ‘smart’ wireless drum sticks to interactive album covers. Potentiate your guitar
Guitar fans, say goodbye to cumbersome cables. Created by the Scotland-based startup Ingenious Audio, Jack is billed as the world’s first gadget to stream wirelessly real-time audio to an amplifier. A recent success on Kickstarter, Jack simply plugs into any guitar output connector and syncs via Wi-Fi to amps, as well as your tablet, to playback or record your music. Jack has also staggeringly low latency for realtime playing – about 13 times faster than standard Bluetooth and almost 3 times quicker than “low latency” Bluetooth. At wifi-guitar.com, Around $280 London-based artist Bruno Zamborlin has created Mogees, a new device that transforms any object into a musical instrument. The smart gizmo attaches to any surface, picks up the vibrations from the object while you tap it with your finger, and converts them into sound via a smartphone app. So in effect, your desk, coffee mug and backpack can become your new guitar, drum kit and saxophone – sounds good. “Sticking a Mogee sensor to a window or to a tree is like playing them. The different way you touch it, the different way it sounds,” Zamborlin told Metro. At Mogees.co.uk, Price TBC