Beep Music

Two ex-Googlers create hardware that allows you to stream Pandora onto any speaker

Music streaming services such as to Pandora, Spotify and the just-launched Beats Music are no longer newfangled “apps of the moment,” but have become the standard way of listening to music. While new apps and services for listening to and discovering tunes are continuously being developed and updated, hardware still lags far behind. Chromecast was perhaps a response to the increasing number of users who …

Cool Hunting Video: NYU Fluid Dynamics Lab

A visit to the NYU Applied Math Lab, where they unlock the secrets of aerodyamics—one flying jellyfish robot at a time

The concept of flight has always held humankind’s imagination captive—yet making that concept a reality continues to baffle even the most ingenious innovators. We recently got a few insights and a lesson in aerodynamics from NYU Professor of Mathematics at the Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Leif Ristroph. He explains that mathematicians and physicists studying flight and aerodynamics view water and air both as fluids and showed …

AIAIAI + Stones Throw: TMA-1

A music lover's dream collaboration from those who create the sounds and the tools

Collaborations between like-minded creators often produce the best results, when the combination is just right. Luckily the team at Copenhagen’s “no bullshit” audio design company AIAIAI and Los Angeles independent record label Stones Throw (known for releasing some of the most influential hip-hop and experimental music of the past two decades) have teamed up to produce a true music lover’s headphone, the TMA-1 Stones Throw …