Audioheads! You need a pair of open-back, planar magnetic headphones An odyssey of making your earholes tingle just right A quick disclaimer Before we bite into this content meat together, I need to get a few points out of the way. Basically, for the statement about open-back, planar magnetic headphones to be true, you already need to have a good audio setup. This means you already have a dedicated hi-fi system, or potentially a DAC for your computer....

When I first started looking into Web-based music sequencers and digital audio workstations last year,Audiotoolwas one of the first I came across. I was instantly impressed by this slick, Flash-based tool and the features that the team of Cologne based developers had already packed into it. I’d even go as far to say that it was a big contributing factor to me deciding to cover this kind of tech in-depth over atAudio Silver Lining....

Thought it was pretty cool that your phone can scan QR codes and barcodes using just your camera? Or that it can recognize a book or CD cover? WithJunaioyour iPhone’s camera just got a little bit cooler. We covered augmented reality browser, Junaio when it firstlaunched in 2009, as itdeveloped, and expanded to include theiPad 2as a supported device. In its latest incarnation, Junaio 3.0 is combining augmented reality with image recognition, meaning not only can you now scan QR codes and barcodes, you can also scan images using the app....

The ‘Wow factor’ of Augmented Reality on phones has runs its course, but on tablets? That’s a different story. Now that the iPad 2 has opened the door to iOS developers building tablet-optimised apps that take advantage of cameras and that’s exactly what Germany’sMetaiohas been doing. The video below shows its initial experiments in Augmented Reality on the iPad 2. “We were really surprised to see how powerful the 3D hardware is,” explains the company’s CTO Peter Meier....

A Montreal-based startup calledHololabs Studiois developing apps for the iPhone that will enable users to create 3D objects in augmented reality without any coding knowledge. TheMixAR app, still in development, can be best described as an object-editor for the augmented reality space because its system will bring users the ability to snap pictures of an object and watch it turn into a 3D model that can later be overlaid in AR and recorded as video....