It’s a familiar problem for the headphone set: You love bringing your own personal soundtrack with you, but hate the prospect of being injured or worse due to headphone-induced obliviousness. Essency Awareness, a $2 app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, solves that problem by listening to what’s going on around you and mixing that…
Remember when part of an earbud lodged in my ear and I had to go to the hospital? Etymotic, the company that made the earbud in question, sure does. Not only did that post attract a lot of attention here, but it blew up over at Gizmodo, too. Because headphones are the most important factor…
Maybe it’s true, what they say, that everything is moving faster these days. How else to explain that we’re already halfway through the year? Inspired by our pals at the music reviews site Drowned In Sound, who put together a helpful list of the six best debut albums of 2012, we decided to take stock of…
We cover music apps like the waterfront here at Evolver.fm. But without a solid way to turn the ones and zeros comprising today’s music into vibrating air, there’s no point in digital music, apps, streaming subscriptions, interactive radio, or any of the rest of it. That’s why we care about Apple Airplay, Google Fling, and…
