Grand pianos and small apartments don’t mix. Neither do grand pianos and small budgets. Korg has the solution with a very small grand piano called the Korg MicroPiano. It’s not actually a grand piano, but a digital keyboard designed to look like a grand that fits on a tabletop. With 61 scaled down keys, it’s [more…]
Wacom Inkling
The future of art may be in something like the iPad but traditional artists aren’t yet ready to give up the sketchpad. There is just something about putting pen to paper that you can’t quite emulate on a glass touchscreen. The challenge is getting pen and paper drawings into a digital environment. So Wacom invented [more…]
Figure For iPhone
It’s really easy to make music on the iPhone if you don’t mind making cruddy sounding music. But not a lot of people have tackled an easy way to make great sounding music. The team at Propellerhead – makers of pro audio software Reason – have made it remarkably easy to make music that sounds [more…]
Trash Amps Speaker
You love listening to your music through headphones at work or your home office, but sometimes you just need to kick out the jams and blast a tune for everyone to hear. Unfortunately, you just don’t have room for any more junk on your desk. Perhaps you could get rid of some of those old [more…]
Turntable Rider
We at Need Please had several childhood aspirations: to be a pro BMX rider, to be a cool hip-hop DJ, and to be the 5th, lesser known Ninja Turtle…Bob Ross. The last one is a stretch but the creatives at Cogoo in Japan managed to mash our other two dreams into one amazing product. Turntable [more…]
Olloclip Portable iPhone Lens
Everyone knows that mobile phones have pretty much taken over the portable camera market. Why bother carrying around extra equipment when you have a great camera in your pocket? But the one thing mobile phones lack is lens control. The Olloclip fixes that problem without bulking up your rig. The Olloclip is a tiny clip [more…]
ODD Spider 3D Printed Guitar
Growing up with The Jetsons made us long for the day when we’d walk up to a machine, push a few buttons, and out would pop anything we wanted. With recent 3D printing tech, we are finally reaching Jetsons status. The ODD Spider 3D Printed Guitar is a perfect example of our future. Designer Olaf [more…]
Paper for iPad
It may seem counterintuitive but the one thing the iPad needs is a way to operate like good old fashioned paper. There are plenty of drawing apps out there, many that try to mimic Photoshop, but a good experience that lets you do everything you’d do with a sheet of paper is another story. Paper [more…]
Miike Snow – Happy To You
Miike Snow isn’t a typo. Miike Snow isn’t a guy you know. Miike Snow is a trio from Sweden, two thirds of which are the production team – Bloodshy & Avant – behind mega hits like Britney Spear’s “Toxic”. The third member is American singer Andrew Wyatt. Together they are the dance pop force whose [more…]
Folding Ukulele DIY Kit
Sure the ukulele is a pretty portable instrument, but couldn’t it be more portable? What if you could fold it up into a little box that fit neatly in your messenger bag? You’d always be ready to bust out your cover of “I’m Yours”. The Folding Ukulele DIY Kit designed by MIT professor Brian Chan [more…]
Boomcase Speakers
Back in the day we carried around boomboxes everywhere we went. Eventually we got jobs and traded out the boomboxes for briefcases and travel suitcases. But why not mix the two? For your next business trip – or party – why not pack a suitcase full of beats? That’s what the Boomcase is for. These [more…]
Brian Brushwood – Scam School Book 1
Brian Brushwood is a bizarre magician who has made a name for himself teaching everyday Joes how to win free drinks and impress girls at the bar with his popular video podcast Scam School. Now he’s literally written the book on bar trick mastery with – Scam School Book 1. This e-book, available on iTunes [more…]
