Teenage Engineering, the Swedish design agency that created varied bizarre and delightful devices like Panic’s Playdate gaming handheld and the the OP-1 music synthesizer, has a brand new machine to ogle. The TP–7 is a area recorder, meant for capturing audio throughout interviews, sampling sounds out within the wild, recording music performances, or capturing voice notes.

It appears to be like like a retro-futuristic MiniDisc participant or, because the designers doubtless meant, an old-school tape reel participant. Retro aesthetics apart, Teenage Engineering’s gizmos are identified for being completely full of fashionable options. The TP-7 isn’t any completely different. For starters, it has an accompanying transcription mode when synced to an iOS app, so your voice recordings might be transformed to textual content.

The machine is supposed to nestle into the palm of your hand, so there’s a rocker alongside the aspect the place your index and ring fingers would naturally relaxation. Pressing that rocker change somehow permits you to fast-forward or reverse the audio playback. Yes, that disc within the middle easily spins like a tape reel whereas the TP-7 is enjoying or recording. The motion is usually for present (it’s all digital; there’s no precise tape in there), however the wheel can be utilized to wash by the audio by spinning it shortly or to pause the recording by grabbing it and stopping its motion. Unnecessary? Yes. Cool? Well, yeah. It’s acquired seven hours of battery life and 128 gigabytes of inner storage for all of your audio keepsakes.

Cool because it appears to be like and sure feels, it is probably not your best option in your audio recording wants. The TP-7 doesn’t have an XLR enter, the connector sort that may be a customary in {many professional} mics and different audio gear. There is an inner mic constructed into the TP-7, after all, together with three 3.5-mm inputs that may take a typical aux twine. There’s additionally a 6.35-mm output that you should use to attach the recorder to fancy headphones or audio system. It’s additionally a lot, rather more costly than one of many customary audio recorders offered by trade leaders like Tascam or Zoom. The TP-7 goes for—document scratch—$1,500. The firm says it will likely be launched someday this summer season.

Read on for extra gadget information.

iPad Music and Video

In different audio manufacturing information, Apple is sticking its previously desktop-only software program Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro on the iPad. The iPad has carved out a pleasant little area of interest for itself within the beat-making enterprise with a wealthy library of music creation apps, so getting the digital audio workstation Logic on there makes a ton of sense.

Apple is making its Final Cut Pro video modifying software program out there for the machine as effectively. Both software program suites have new controls and options that make the most of the iPad’s touchscreen. You can use multitouch to stretch and transfer clips round, or change pitch and different audio settings in Logic. Both applications enable exporting to their respective desktop counterparts.

Each program is offered as a subscription service for $5 monthly or $50 per 12 months.

Amazon Anywhere All at Once

If you ever felt prefer it’s simply not simple sufficient to impulse-buy from Amazon, excellent news: The retailer has a brand new service that permits you to purchase stuff whereas enjoying video games. Called Amazon Anywhere, it’s a service that may be embedded in associate apps and digital companies to higher allow you to shortly purchase issues in actual life.

The first sport to work with Amazon Anywhere is Peridot, by Pokemon Go creator Niantic. The sport duties you with caring for and bonding with augmented actuality critters projected in the actual world. (Think Pokemon Go meets Tamagotchi.) The method the funds work is that you simply sync your Amazon account within the sport, which can then will let you spend actual cash to purchase bodily merch together with your imaginary animals printed on it.