Gadgetoid

gadg-et-oid [gaj-it-oid]

-adjective

1. having the characteristics or form of a gadget;
resembling a mechanical contrivance or device.

Archive for October, 2007

Return of the IXOS Disco Cube

The perfect Christmas accessory for your iPod-owning hyperactive siblings, the IXOS DIsco Cube, has returned with a vengeance. Last year…

Sony unveil music like no other

Sony’s marketing machine is at it again. Not wanting to be beaten at the game of creating the most elaborate…

Steinberg Cubase 4.1 Released

Cubase 4.1 is now available for download absolutely free for users of Cubase 4 and Cubase Studio 4. Many areas…

Sennheiser PXC 450 rated Best Noise Cancelling Headphone

Well I said “Potentially crushing the BOSE QuietComfort headphones like a bug” when I first posted about the Sennheiser PXC…

Microsoft offering free HD-DVDs

With every purchase of an Xbox 360 HD-DVD player you can now get not one, not two, not even three…

Zero Punctuation on Orange Box

Yahtzee is at it again with a diatrabe on the shiny new Orange Box from Valve. You know… Half Life…

First by IXOS XMM238 Cube Travel Speaker

As if there aren’t enough portable speakers crowding the market IXOS are continuing their line of value brand lifestyle accessories…

Crucial Updates Memory Advisor

Crucial’s fantastic Memory Advisor tool now includes upgrade information for some 35 thousand systems. As always all you need to…

Cubase 4

As SoundControl.co.uk are offering Cubase 4 at £379.00 and it currently represents the cutting edge of music production software I…

Introducing the Roland Fantom X8

This is the first of a series of articles covering Roland’s flagship synthesizer workstation the Fantom X series (which includes…

Two Worlds in Top 10!?

Okay, so I don’t keep an eye on the charts so I have only myself to blame but nobody but…

Sennheiser HD215 Headphones Review

We took a look at the Sennheiser HD215 closed-back headphones back in June, without further ado here’s what we thought.…

Terratec AXON AX100 MKII

The Terratec AXON MKII guitar to MIDI controller arrived at the desks of Gadgetoid yesterday. I spent some time testing…

Denon SMART S-302 Wi-fi Network Home Cinema

“No AV system on the market, even hugely expensive Scandinavian and American ones have this level of technology or audio/video…

Blue Snowpack

Blue have bundled the Blue Snowball USB Microphone, a set of USB headphones, a stand and recording software together into…

Korg Pa2X Pro

The Korg Pa2X Pro looks truly awe inspiring, borrows some design cues from the flagship Oasys (namely the tilting touch…

Limited Edition “Black” microKORG

If you’ve been eying the cute but powerful little microKORG for a while then this might be the deciding factor.…

Let the Kaos Begin

As a long time fan of nifty control surfaces like Rolands “Time-Trip Pad” and those on the Korg Kaos Pad…

Sennheiser HD-280 Pro

Over the past couple of weeks I have been playing with the Sennheiser HD280 Pro Headphones. These are some fairly…

D.I.Y. Keyboard Stand

After much searching for an ‘official’ way of mounting a keyboard above another on a desk I eventually all but…