Gadgetory

hey this is Danny with The Verge and we are here checking out the phase which is a really unique replacement for the traditional needle on the tone arm of a turntable so the way this works it's got little sticky pieces of rubber on the bottom and all you have to do is plop it on top of a record give it a little push to make sure that it's sticky and then it will read the time code of any GPS enabled software that you're DJing with so now without the use of the tonearm I can play this song and actually have control over the time code without even having a needle physically on the record the really cool thing about it is that you could do it in the air you could walk away from the turntable traditionally use it on the turntable to scratch or to cue up your next record the way it's working is that this is sending a radio frequency signal to this box right here and then this is connecting the turntables that the mixer and communicating with your computer the whole thing is very compact this also acts as a charger for the two phases and they say that you should get about ten hours that you use out of only one hour of charging which is really impressive the whole package should cost about $300 when it comes out which they say should be around summertime but there's no hearts that day when you're like oh well why would why would I need to do this right but the problem is with a large traditional needle this is the point that is in contact with a piece of vinyl when you're playing with a traditional tone arm and that can get screwed up in a number of ways a piece of dust you get caught underneath this say you're playing in a very loud environment she's too close to you and they bump you or the base gets to rumbling and loud all of that can cause skips in a record with this that just eliminates any skips from happening at all and plus gives you a little bit of a fun visual effect on top of it from what I can tell there's virtually no latency which is absolutely insane it solves a lot of problems it's really compact it works with any turntable that you already have you just take the puck you slap it on give it a little stick and then at the end of your set you can take it out it all is contained in this one little box and you can pop it your bag and take it with you to your next gig I think it's a really exciting product everybody here has been very excited to see in action and there you go the face should be available in the next few months