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The Internet has given circuit bending, the process of hands-on experimentation with battery-powered electronic noise making circuits, a life of its own. If you look hard enough, you’ll find that somebody, somewhere, has circuit bent just about any electrical toy or gadget that you can imagine.
Here are thirteen of the most bizarre examples of circuit [...]

This is a cool idea: The August issue of Otona No Kagaku (Japanese for Adult Of Science) will be a synth themed edition called the Synthesizer Chronicle. It will feature interviews from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tomita and Fumitaka Anzai.
With the magazine comes the SX 150 Gakken Analog Synthesizer - which appears to be a basic battery-powered [...]

Music Thing’s Tom Whitwell has posted a short review of the Chimera BC16 mini-synth, a tiny semi-modular synthesizer.
The Chimera BC16 is a $269 miniature patch synthesizer, offering a VCO, LFO, 24dB VCF, VCA, envelope generator, noise source, ring modulator and headphone amplifier - all in a crisp, white, round, CNC machined acrylic housing the same diameter [...]

Tony Amendolare at ElectroKraft has introduced Super Synth Drums - an NES cartridge that runs the machine into a drum synth.
Super Synth Drums is a genuine Nintendo NES cartridge that transforms your original NES, or clone system (Yobo, Generation Nex) into an 8 bit percussion instrument. Just plug the cartridge into your Nintendo NES system [...]

The Original Pixelh8 Music Tech Game Boy Synthesizer is a cartridge that fits into an unmodified game boy, letting you control the Game Boy’s on-board sound. You can edit the wave duty, pitch sweep and volume envelope as well as new additions such as unison, 5th power chords and octaves.
This updated version V2.0 allows for [...]

GlitchDS is a free cellular automaton music sequencer for the Nintendo DS that could be great for creating IDM and Glitch style loops. 
Features include:

Customizable Cellular Automaton sequencer
Create your own “trigger points”
Load in your own sounds
Save and load your work
BPM settings, or “strum mode” for controlling tempo
Up to 6 sounds can be loaded at once
Each sound [...]

yarglaaaafr freestyling on the Nintendo DS using a preview version of his project “ProteinDS”.

Remember the awesome synth miniatures of Dan McPharlin?
Matias Greco of Micromundo has posted images of his own amazing synth miniatures. The Australator Modular System, above, includes patchable cords, while the Bobyager tribute synth, below, has light-up mod wheels!

Yeah - they aren’t lit up here. Go check out the rest of the photos at the Micromundo [...]

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 [...]

Remember the Synthmonster - the weird sound generator that looks like a Tribble from Star Trek?
We’ve found something even more bizarre.
Sound Candy is an interactive device designed to help people “repossess the experience of creating ‘The new play’ with their own hands. It’s part Tribble and part sound toy, with just a bit of kink [...]