The Art Lebedev shop, which brought us the beautifully designed but economically forbidding Optimus Maximus keyboard, is now moving into the toy business with a portable DJ scratch pad the size of a credit card. They call it the Plastinkus, and it's supposed to produce true music sounds.
From a quick look, it appears to include a tiny, hair-thin turntable but there's no word of inputs, outputs, EQ knobs, or a volume fader. But hey, if you can get any notes to work on a slice of plastic, it's probably worth the $5 it costs. It's available in 40 different colors.
If the Lebedev folks haven't thought of it already, maybe they could figure out a way to include a song on the card, then make it moddable and easy to transfer. The prices for storage has come down so much that you could easily pare it down to a super-portable music/DJ player. Oh, I know there are portable DJ players out already, but maybe one could be available for less than half a grand?
Encore: So if you have an itch to scratch records, Lebedev's gonna get rich with a batch of toys -- oh, there goes his vocal cords. How do you solve it? Who cares. Check out the hook while this DJ revolves it. (Ed.'s Note: Sorry, I had to.)
