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A new technique from Columbia University recruits bacterial spies to see what’s going on in our bodies. It's essentially “bugging” a bug, with bacteria engineered to record what they interact with on their journey through the gastrointestinal tract, and even timestamp when those events occurred.

BrandNewNoise has added the Krankie to its small catalog of handcrafted audio recording devices. It's an old school music box mechanism sat atop a box made of sustainable wood that allows the user to create custom tunes and record the results.

Do you rely on hastily scribbled notation or tab when four- or six-string inspiration hits? Or even just try and remember. Denmark's TC Electronic has come up with the Wiretap Riff Recorder, a new way to capture and catalog your killer riffs that's always at your feet.

MixChecker from Audified allows home mixers and studio pros to hear what their tracks sound like when listening through a TV, car stereo, smartphone or studio monitors and adjust for any weak spots.

A new device is aiming to do for audio recording what the GoPro did for video recording. The Instamic is a small, self-contained, high-quality sound recorder. It is aimed at musicians, filmmakers, journalists, bloggers and other people who need a simple and effective means of capturing sound.

JamHub has announced that it's now shipping the Tracker MT16 Wi-Fi-enabled multitrack recorder. It's designed to capture up to 16 channels of post-trim, pre-fader, CD-quality recordings of live performances straight from the mixing desk, and wirelessly upload the files to the cloud.

TV shows that clash, or family members that clash over TV shows, mean that we don't always get to watch the show we want. A new service from US-based satellite provider Dish, however, can change that. The Super Joey allows users to record up to eight simultaneous TV programs.

The Acoustic Stream wirelessly pairs with a companion app running on an iOS device to help players record a killer riff or live stream to an amplifier, includes a built-in precision tuner, and sends out an alert when environmental changes threaten to damage a treasured instrument.

Apogee Electronics has released the JAM 96k professional guitar interface and the MiC 96k professional digital microphone, both designed for iPad, iPhone and Mac.

The Madeleine is a "smell camera" concept from designer Amy Radcliffe, who has developed a technique for capturing, processing, and recreating odors.

ScoreCleaner Notes is an iPhone app that takes a simple melody and instantly turns it into written notation.

JamHub has announced BandLab at NAMM – the first cloud-based digital audio workstation.