DJ-Tech’s new DJ For All Controller is a USB DJ Controller that is aimed at the masses – or rather, the newbies. The device is designed to sit in the front of your Mac laptop or PC which it connects to via USB. Albeit not a replacement for professional equipment, the DJ for All Controller features everything you would need to get started DJ’ing. For starters it sports a 2 XXL jog wheel with an aluminum platter, 8 rubber pads for CUE, a crossfader with curve adjustment, 2 X SHIFT buttons, access to DSP effects via the Jog wheel and much more. Pricing is TBD.

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This isn't the first multi-touch DJing we've seen, but something about watching this guy navigate his transparent control station—a homebrew touchscreen running a Traktor Pro controller called Emulator—really makes me want to do the robot. [PabloMartin via Engadget] More »

Think you know multitouch surfaces? Think again. We've just come across a video demo of the Token multitouch, erm, pedestal, which seems to have come straight from the future. A clear sheet of glass that beams out video from your computer and accepts touch inputs in return, the Token concept has been designed by a chap named Rodrigo hailing out of Chile. We know it uses a rear projector for its video, but other construction details are scarce at this point; what's really special here, however, is the way he combines it with a Traktor Pro controller titled Emulator, turning a few intelligent finger swipes into a kickass light-and-sound show. See it on video after the break.

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Novation’s Dicer doesn’t just look like dice but it also comes in pairs. This palm-sized cue point and looping controller is designed to stick on your laptop, CDJ, mixer or turntable – and the best part is that because there are two of them included, you can stick one on your laptop and one on your turntable for instant access to effects, no matter where you’re standing. The Novation Dicer works in tandem with the Serato Scratch Live software and retails for $99.

The Xraydio 2 Disk is one of the coolest coffee tables you’ll find, and believe it or not – it comes from the hip clothing company, Diesel. This rectangular table measures 140 x 50 x 29h cm and is made by printing the X-ray of a DJ console on glass and using the colors of the night with shades from electric blue to black. The result is a transparent glass effect that is super neat. Unfortunately there is no word on pricing for this beauty.

AERIAL7 has come out with an affordable new series of DJ style headphones, and they are being called the Phoenix. This series is a mid-size headphone that features a fully collapsible frame and padded headband. Phoenix promises to deliver sound quality that is usually found in a larger format device. Phoenix also features a swivel earcup for single-sided monitoring, a microphone for using the headphones with an iPhone or BlackBerry, premium speakers and a 44mm driver for a superior listening experience. Finally, a Skype adapter is also included with the headphones for making VOIP calls on a computer. AERIAL7’s Phoenix headphones are available in several funky color combination including Chino, Storm, Eclipse, and Citron and will retail for $60 starting in July.

There are now over 1,348 approved apps for the iPad. That's on top of the 150,000 iPad-compatible iPhone programs already available in the App Store. When Apple's tablet PC launches, just hours from now, it will have a software library greater than that of any handheld in history -- not counting the occasional UMPC. That said, the vast majority of even those 1,348 iPad apps are not original. They were designed for the iPhone, a device with a comparatively pokey processor and a tiny screen, and most have just been tweaked slightly, upped in price and given an "HD" suffix -- as if that somehow justified the increased cost.

Besides, we've seen the amazing potential programs have on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and webOS when given access to a touchscreen, always-on data connection, GPS, cloud storage and WiFi -- but where are the apps that truly define iPad? What will take advantage of its extra headroom, new UI paradigms and multitouch real estate? Caught between netbook and smartphone, what does the iPad do that the iPhone cannot? After spending hours digging through the web and new iPad section of the App Store, we believe we have a number of reasonably compelling answers.

Update: Now includes Wormhole Remote, TweetDeck, SkyGrid, Touchgrind HD, GoToMeeting, SplitBrowser, iDisplay, Geometry Wars and Drawing Pad.

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So, sure, the iPad may just be an overgrown iPhone. But this teaser shot of Mixr, a fully-featured, multitouch DJ app, should give you a sense of just how awesome apps designed for an oversized iPhone can be. More »

Pioneer is known to make digital mixers that leave us drooling and wishing for some DJ skills. First they gave us the CDJ-2000 with its beautiful LCD screen, and now they've given us the DJM-2000, a multitouch screen-having per-frequency-mixing beauty. More »