In a first for the Delight Scale, we are publishing the scores for two products by the same brand in the same family. Our product research on AirPods and AirPods Pro yielded some consistent insights across Apple hardware products. One… Read More ›
Music
ABBA Voyage
So what is ABBA Voyage? It is a revolutionary concert that blends the physical and the digital worlds – the concert that ABBA have always wanted to give their fans. This looks very clever and it is great to see… Read More ›
Comforting Sounds
I was sent this song last week by a friend and I was a little bored with it. Bored to the point that I started doing something else and just let it play in the background. And then the song… Read More ›
Panasonic’s guide to killing a product quickly
After a stock imagery-based investigation, The Verge discovered that Panasonic appears to have placed a white man’s head atop a Black man’s body, and also lightened the latter’s skin to match. Which, you’ll be unsurprised to hear, is not going… Read More ›
AirPods Pro still making me dizzy…
I wrote about the AirPods Pro and the sense that they made me dizzy with noise cancellation on some time back, and now I can confirm that it definitely happens. A week ago I found myself feeling dizzy and verging… Read More ›
Nothing Ear(1) Review
You may not be getting the most sparkling sound quality from these, but it does seem as though there is a lot here for the price. I can see these selling very well for those who do not want to… Read More ›
Has Carl Pei come up with an AirPods Pro rival?
Ultra light at 4.7g / Powerful 11.6mm speaker driver / Sound by Teenage Engineering / Active Noise Cancellation / Up to 34 hours of listening. When you want peace and quiet, switch on active noise cancellation to capture and cancel… Read More ›
They Might Be Giants (the app)
A different song every day! They Might Be Giants’ official and totally free song app includes new Dial-A-Song tracks and songs from the band’s vast catalog. The app holds five tracks at all times… More here. I love the personality… Read More ›
Somebody To Love – Live in Montreal. Beyond perfect?
For some reason I am seeing many reaction videos promoted on YouTube recently looking at this specific performance from 1981. I have always liked it, but when I ‘really’ listened to it and watched it closely it became so much… Read More ›
Pop music’s greatest year?
In the December of 1980 John Lennon had been murdered; his killer had created a list of targets and Bowie was next in line. Bowie was spooked; he cut short his stint in “The Elephant Man” on Broadway and jetted… Read More ›
