Gadgets

As everyone who works with audio recording will know, the raw audio file sizes can really start to add up quickly. So quickly in fact, that even the large hard drive capacities that we take for granted these days can soon be filled to the brim.

Thankfully however, as technology keeps striding forward relentlessly, the maximum hard drive sizes keep increasing. It seems relatively recently that the 500 Gigabyte harddrives were launched by some of the leading manufacturers, and that was just another step on the ladder of progress.

Hitachi has just released news of their latest offering in the ultra sized hard drive category - the World's first Terabyte harddrive. For those not familiar with that term, that's 1000 Gigabytes!

1000GB's should be plenty for most musicians DAW machines I'd imagine.

These drives should be available second quarter of 2007, and have a RRP of $399.

For more info you can read Hitachi's Press Release.

While it's not strictly a product designed with musicians in mind, as soon as I stumbled across this little beauty, I knew it deserved a mention!

If you're addicted to listening to all the great music on offer at MakeTunes, and your own musical creations of course, it might pain you to have to sometimes be out of reach of an audio playing device - I know I've often thought along these lines!

One of the more common things which can come between a musician and their music is water.

Whether its water in the shower, or water in the swimming pool, most of us aren't able to play our MP3 collection in wet conditions. Well, at least not without either electrocuting ourselves, or destroying our treasured portable MP3 players in the process!

Well turns out we're not the only ones, and a company called Ego (what a modest name!) have come up with a total waterproofing solution for your Ipod, complete with waterproof speakers. How cool is that.

They actually use pool and shower shots in their advertising. Ok, so the shower shots were probably just an excuse to photograph a lovely lady in the shower, but the concept is still pretty cool right?!

Check it out in detail on the Ego website.