I found out about these in the latest issue of Popular Science.
From Charge2Go - a nifty gadget that lets you charge your cell phone from a AA battery. Unfortunately they don't have a conector for my type of phone. Hmmm, can I use a $20 gadget to justify getting a new phone?
Fujifilm Digital Mobile Printer MP-100 - mobile printer for cell phones. Just beam the photo from the phone to the printer and it prints out a credit card-sized photo. This doesn't work with my phone either. I don't think it works with any of the phones I can use with my service provider. I feel disenphonechised.
Because we always have batteries, just not in the size I need...Energizer Quick Switch - a flashlight that has spring-loaded clamps so you can use D, C or AA batteries in it.
An article in the February issue of Discover tells about pitch-correction software called Melodyne.
You croon a few verses into a microphone, and Melodyne plots the notes you sang against a standard musical scale. Then you select the option for Note Snap, and with a single click, the software corrects the pitch of each snippet of audio so that your vocals are perfectly in tune. You can even copy a refrain, drag it up or down a few notes, and create harmony without singing another line.
If you knew how much my singing ability falls short of my enjoyment of singing, you would know why I think this software is so cool. While it won't improve my live performances (usually in the car with the radio turned up loud enough to almost drown out my singing) at least I could record myself and have it sound acceptable. And with this, could a microphone with auto-correction software embedded in it be that far off?
I don't know what the cost of the software is, though it's probably more than I would want to spend just for my own amusement.
Posted by marybeth at January 27, 2005 11:37 AM Shiny Things