Many people worry about their computers being hacked. Very few worry about eavesdropping used on their printers. In the May 2009 issue of Scientific American, an article talks about potential office hacks using surveillance tactics, one being recording and analyzing the sounds made by a printer. So far, the research has been done on dot-matrix [...]

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With iPods holding over 2,000 music songs, it’s quite possible that some songs have accidentally made it to your playlist without your knowledge.  Maybe your significant other had something to do with it. Also, this is simply a hypothetical list (really). That being said, here is a list of songs most people, regardless of musical [...]

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Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corp., is well known for making the prediction in 1965 that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years. Early in 2008, Intel announced a record 2 Billion transistors in 1 chip.  With each new chip density record the problems of crosstalk and logic gate [...]

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Julia Dales is a 17 year-old from Canada. Her beatbox video starts off with the words: My name is Julia Dales and I want to win the Beatbox Battle Wildcard. Her two-minute clip features DJ mixes, a bass line, drums, and an excellent remix of Justin Timberlake (who also has some beatbox skills), Fergie and [...]

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So you’ve upgraded the old tube to that ultra-seek wall mounted LCD or plasma HDTV. You’re getting valuable floor space back, the living room is looking less crowded. Now you’re going for that minimalist look, getting rid of the monstrous entertainment center.  Next on the to-do list are those large boxes, called floor speakers, that [...]

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I have met just a few virtuosos in my interactions with musicians, and I have met even fewer who have been able to take their playing in an entirely new and creative direction.
These two videos are simply incredible. They are of musicians who have managed to come up with methods of beatboxing while [...]

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NoiseAddicts has launched a new blog called SynthGear.com!
The idea is simple: The new blog will focus on stories, articles and interesting posts with the subject focus of synthesizers and other music machines that you have to plug in to make music.
You don’t have to be a synthesizer player to enjoy it either - we’ll [...]

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Plasma ion tweeters are an evolution the “singing arc”, invented by William Duddells 1900. He basically reworked a carbon arc lamp - which were known for being fairly noisy.
Now, William found that by varying the voltage to the arc, it changed the sound that was produced….  Bingo.
Much later a fellow by the name of [...]

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