i'm not really sure how this works but it looks interesting.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/30/otto-slices-beats-has-no-effect-on-tin-cans/

ahhhhhhhh... an explanation

Damn...that looks pretty ill. Would like to mess about with a couple of these simultaneously.

eric @ Jun 30th 2009 9:19PM
It's funny, because as someone who is familiar with electronic music production, this is one of the most elegant and straight forward solutions to loop manipulation I've ever seen.

The dots represent the waveform of audio, wrapped around in a circle. The lines are where the beat is divided into 8 stop points, all which you could press on the top to jump to that part in the audio.

The small dot that runs around the outside of the whole circle shows the current position of the loop being played.

The switch on the top flips the playback from forward to backwards.

Buttons on the side cause small sections to loop very quickly.

Very straight forward, and I bet anyone would figure it out after using it for a minute or two.

Interesting piece of machinery that is right there aye