Adam Balkin, Your Technology
 

A fully functional DJ system jammed into a digital music player. At the very least we need devices like the Pacemaker to help us realize technology hasn't reached its limit. Creative minds out there will always think of ways to build a better or just plain different mouse trap or beat box.

“Basically it's two turntables and a mixer and we've taken a full scale professional setup and we've packed that down into this small interface. You can beat match in between two tracks, add effects, filters, you can reverse play, you can loop a song,” said Ola Sars of Tonium.

The Guitar Wizard is a new system for helping you perform your own music. You learn the six-string by playing a game.

“I know by the shape which string I'm on and then I know by the color which fret to play and I can anticipate it coming, what we've also been able to do is isolate each string, so you can just play one string till you master that string, go up to the next one, it'll intelligently move up as you're getting better,” said Chris Salter of the Music Wizard Group.

Radios are getting more intelligent. So much so this that one radio for the hearing impaired. As more broadcasters move from analog to digital signals, they'll soon be able to use part of that digital signal to send out closed captioning of radio shows to certain radios. And this Viable video conferencing system, also designed specifically for the hearing impaired.

“There aren't many out there developed for the sign language application because of the detail, the lighting that might be in an environment, for instance nobody has a video unit with a light on it like we do, video quality, we spent a lot of time on codec improvement,” said John Yeh of Viable.

Until wireless carriers focus more on signal improvement, you will see lots of devices like these from Wi-Ex, for boosting your own personal cell signal either at home, the office, or even in the car. Kodak boosting the speed at which you can make your old picture prints digital with this batch scanner it's going to starting attaching to printing kiosks

And would you believe that a wireless gagdet about the size of a flashlight is a portable printer?

“The paper is inside the unit which is only about one inch by two inches by about 11 inches long, batteries included, you have about 20 sheets of paper per roll,” said Doug Verkiak of Planon Systems Soulutions.

The quality is about on par with a black-and-white-only printer from maybe 15 years ago, but it would come in handy for hardcore technophiles who are now pen and pencil-phobes.

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