Touchtable mixer takes conventional PMP design for a wiki-wiki-twist

Not that we haven't seen turntable capabilities shoved into production and concept devices alike before, but there's something curiously seductive about this one. Dreamed up by Sir Thomas Mascall, the Touchtable is a pocket-sized PMP that boasts a digit-friendly surface meant for scratching, mixing and all manners of interacting. Aside from playing back your favorite MP3s, this bugger can (in theory, anyway) also mix jams on the fly, cue outputs and even connect with a second Touchtable wirelessly in order to establish a more traditional DJ setup (at 1:8 scale). Plug it into a PC, and now you've got a MIDI controller. Pop that source link if you're looking for a few more images and details, and feel free to contact your local VC if interested in seeing this fast-tracked to the commercial realm.

[Streetfights Posted Dec 6th 2009 3:47PM]

I want this. How much?

[xxxsam Posted Dec 6th 2009 4:48PM]

@Streetfights If it actually lived up to its promise, about three hundred dollars. If on the other hand it ever gets actually released, probably somewhere around eighty for a broken sub-toy implementation that's basically just a cheap gimmick on top of a crappy PMP. :)

Or maybe I'm too cynical...

[Wwhat Posted Dec 6th 2009 5:13PM]

@Streetfights
Seems it's meant to land the designers some jobs not to actually sell a product, so maybe you can get a offset print of it to hang on the wall but that's about it I reckon.

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted Dec 6th 2009 3:51PM]

Mascall stole that design from our proton spin controller at the Collider!!!!


Once again, he has bested me! But, at the next meeting of the Royal Society, I will show him!!!

[CJ100570 Posted Dec 6th 2009 4:00PM]

Interesting but inevitably DOA!

[01 Posted Dec 6th 2009 4:21PM]

Add to "awesome but will never buy" list.

[vlad the inhaler Posted Dec 6th 2009 4:30PM]

if this was made in russia, i'd totally want one.

[Mushrooshi Posted Dec 6th 2009 4:44PM]

Looks more to me like a mini playstation?

[yoshimokaiisan Posted Dec 6th 2009 5:08PM]

looks like a UMD

[TheJason Posted Dec 6th 2009 5:26PM]

If you want to make a something for mixing why dont you start out by asking a DJ what the most important part of a turn table is. If they know what they are talking about they with quickly answer with the one and only thing that this and so many other wanna be DJ PMP's dont have... A FREAKIN PITCH CONTROL SLIDER!
morons...

[danthman2000 Posted Dec 6th 2009 5:30PM]

Appears to be digitless friendly.

[MacMasore Posted Dec 6th 2009 8:13PM]

I'm only wondering how the would make a round display.

[c w j Posted Dec 6th 2009 9:03PM]

dj hero?

[mtor82 Posted Dec 7th 2009 2:16AM]

wow i'd love one of these!

[DjFIL Posted Dec 7th 2009 12:06PM]

Really cool little design. But I couldn't see it replacing my Pacemaker (pacemaker.net) because of the missing features. I don't see (or couldn't find mention of) an actual crossfader to mix between the 2 tracks it can play at once, nor of an EQ/EFX options. But again, very neat concept in design.

[hiphopguy Posted Dec 7th 2009 7:00PM]

This device is 100% useless. There are is no EQ (there should be hi/mid/low) for each channel. There is no pitch control slider. The fact that there is no crossfader makes scratching not an option (not that the tactile feedback would probably come even close to emulating a real turntable). This and that pacemaker thing are completely ridiculous fisher price caliber toys that any real dj would not consider ever buying. Once you have at least the dual chanel 3-band EQ I would be all for it. But until then it is a waste of time to make these useless devices!