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DJ Ruthless Ramsey rocks the decks
Somebody forgot to tell Ramsey that decks means “turntable” in DJ lingo, though!
You can see more of Ramsey at his MySpace page. 
via Califaudio

Gadget.Brando.Com.HK has a DJ Plasma Light that reacts to music to create an interactive light show.
They are super-cheap - $18. Cheap enough to tempt me to get several.
Let me know if you’ve used these and, if so, what you think.
Features:

DJ Plasma Indication Tube
ON/OFF power switch
Lightning or Music/Sonic switch
Music/Sonic with Line [...]

The ATTIGO TT is a futuristic DJ controller, created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design.
He’s created a touch screen turntable that’s pretty f****** awesome! It lets you loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same as [...]

Today Intelligence has announced the official launch of DJ Intelligence Version 6.0, a service for DJs that allows them to add interactive client booking and event-planning tools to their existing Website.
Version 6.0 adds:

the ability to display song lyrics for any song in the DJ’s music library with a single click
the ability for DJs to [...]

If you’re interested in an MPC, get ready to drool.
Akai is shipping the MPC5000, the MPC they call “the most advanced MPC on the planet.”
It offers 8-track streaming hard disk recording, a 20-voice, 3-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 ppq resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, 64 continuous sample [...]

Tonium, the makers of the Pacemaker pocket-sized DJ system, has announced the launch of Pacemaker.net, a social networking site for Pacemaker users.
The Pacemaker music community allows members to upload and legally share the mixes of their music, created by them using a Pacemaker or the free Pacemaker Editor software.
According to Tonium, it’s the only company [...]

Livid has put together a couple of cool videos demoing AudioCube basics:
Percussa Cubes Basics

Impressions and demonstration of using the Percussa Audio cubes with the tutorial Ableton Live set. The center cube detects the faces of the other cubes to send MIDI notes to Live to change loops.
Percussa Cubes with Resonant Synth

Here’s the setup:
Using the distance [...]

This video, by Livid Instruments, shows scratching with Percussa AudioCubes:
I set up four loops in an audio looper program I’ve been working on for future release by Livid Instruments. I’m using the speed of my hand gestures as detected by the four distance sensors on the audio cube to change the playback speed and direction [...]