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hey guys my name is Steven B Sherman here's what's happening this week on cnet scrape off this week I made a trip up to Santa Rosa California to meet with inventor and musician Jeremy Bell he's broke the scrubs the scrub board in its current prototype state was a modified tape cassette player but the tape had ripped out and connected to a longer cable allowing Jeremy to scratch like a hip-hop DJ simply by scrubbing the tape head over elevated pieces of audio tape during his early experiments with analog tape machines he found he could produce record scratching sounds similar to a hip-hop DJ scratching vinyl using analog tape and in a much more effective way eliminating the difficult finger movements that hip-hop scratch DJ is do when scratching a record on a turntable the result is a similar sound was much more control and precision he was able to build a prototype drying up early mock-ups and by literally hacking a couple of grand walk man's he had lying around the scrub board is stereo so you can scratch with two audio sources at the same time even incorporating guitar loops and riffs into the mix jeremy has gotten a lot of attention online from the DJ scratching community after he posted a video of himself demoing the scrub board a few months back as of now jeremy has his sights on creating a do-it-yourself kit for the scrub board for people who want to build one of their own you can learn more about the scrub board at the scrub board com let's do some entertainment news producer and director Ridley Scott has signed on to produce 3001 a Space Odyssey sequel as a TV miniseries the show will be an adaptation of arthur c clarke 3000 won the final odyssey and will air on the sci-fi channel in 2015 Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriter Stuart Beatty has been tapped to adapt the script for TV Trent Reznor is teaming up with apple and beast music for something top secret that mr. reznor says he can't go into detail about I'm also working with Apple something I think is important to music new general trends really like and say right now Trent Reznor has always been a champion of free music giving Nine Inch Nails albums away for free via digital download and encouraging his fans to steal his music in a recent interview with billboard magazine he discussed his work on David Fincher's film gone girl and hinted at some other things he has in the works for the future of music streaming and upcoming Nine Inch Nails projects and it was announced this week that Hodor will not be playing Hodor in season 5 of Game of Thrones boudoir photos science and technology have come together to figure out the top 20 catchiest songs of all time a year-long study conducted by the museum of science and industry in manchester UK measured how recognisable hit songs were and how long it would take people to remember the name or the hook of a hit song a list was compiled based on input from users of a special website where they could play an online game called hooked on the game contains clips from 1000 hit songs from the past 70 years the game collected data from over 12,000 people and here are the top 5 catchy songs of all time on the planet Earth coming in at number five is a bow with SOS coming in at number four is Lady got over just as we were three on our countdown is survivor with I of the tiger the liturgy catchiest song is moving up mom Oh number 5 Erica by my side a little bit of incoming over one account of the cash instead of all the time songs to the world planet is the spice girls with one alright guys let's just show thank you very much for watching as always you could find all these new stores seen as a grave blog at crave cnet com make sure you follow crave on Twitter at crave and check out this week's crave giveaway this week scrape giveaway is the tp-link 10,400 milliamp portable power bank it's always good to have extra power on the go go to the blog and enter to win and like all over each other Oh them yeah it's a while baby other side that is wild I think it's going to stay in now yeah they're gonna get ya you