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MIXHalo uses your headphones to fix terrible concert sound
If you've ever been to a concert where everything sounded awful -- perhaps because of the speakers, or the room acoustics -- you'd understand the pitch behind MIXHalo. Developed by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger, it's a way for concert goers to hear the audio coming from the stage mixer with their own headphones. The company developed a custom WiFi technology that pipes the audio to potentially thousands of nearby phones with very low latency. It might sound a bit pie in the sky, but MIXHalo proved that its technology works during a live demonstration at TechCrunch Disrupt today, which involved Incubus playing alongside one of its investors, Pharrell Williams.
Synthego aims to simplify CRISPR editing for genetic researchers
You've probably heard a lot about CRISPR, the gene editing technique that's already being used in experimental therapies for things like sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis. It's something plenty of researchers are jumping on already, but Synthego is hoping to get even more people into CRISPR with its online toolkit. It lets you search across more than 100,000 genomes, covering over 9,000 species, to validate their CRISPR designs and order the appropriate RNA to chop out their desired genes.
