Digital

​Zivix launched a compact digital guitar called the JamStik in 2013 that allowed pickers to keep their calluses nice and hard while traveling by chording on real strings across its five frets. Now the latest JamStik is less of a "Stik" and more like a grown up travel guitar.​

A study has followed thousands of teenagers tracking associations between screen time and depression. The research separated types of screen time, and found TV and social media activity correlated with increased symptoms of depression, but video game and computer use had little negative effect.

A study has tracked data from 350,000 subjects finding digital technology use accounts for less than half a percent of a young person’s mental health. The research suggests everything from wearing glasses to not getting enough sleep, have bigger negative effects on adolescent well-being.

China’s state-run news agency has revealed it will deploy new digitally generated newsreaders to report the news. The artificial anchors have been designed to reduce news production costs and increase efficiency, however, the use of the technology brings a new definition to the term "fake news."

Supersense has revived and refined an art project by Gebhard Sengmüller and Martin Diamant which sees users put a vinyl record on a turntable that results in sound and video appearing on a TV. Inbetween the two sits a VinylVideo Converter.

Augmented reality can bring a book to life by pointing a smartphone or tablet camera at coded objects on a page and viewing the results on the smart device's screen. Magik Book has created its own spin with brochures that sync with a tablet and launch digital content when a page is turned.​

As Spotify reveals constant revenue losses we ask , is subscription-based music streaming a viable business model and how long can these giant companies operate if they are constantly hemorrhaging money?

Smartphones are everywhere these days, packed with apps designed to make everyday life plain easier. Finland's Trafi is looking to tap into this ubiquitous nature so that drivers no longer need to carry a plastic driving permit, instead using a digital version accessed from within an app.

Fujifilm's Instax cameras hark back to when instant photo-sharing meant passing around a freshly printed snap. Launching with a square photo format, the Instax Square SQ10 expands the shooting options, improves image quality, and can store photos digitally and apply filters before printing them.

Generating high-frequency radio waves purely through the use of integrated circuits and a set of patented algorithms without using conventional analog radio circuits in any way whatsoever, the new Pizzicato transmitter promises to completely change the face of wireless communications technology.

Sony isn't giving up on its original portable music brand – the company introduced a new high resolution digital Walkman at CES 2015 and Gizmag had the chance to test it out.

The Modulus.002 is a boutique polyphonic sound machine that mixes classic analog sound creation techniques with some digital magic to give musicians access to the kind of sounds made famous by vintage instruments of the 70s and 80s.