Tiny Vinyl launched last year as a company selling, yes, tiny four-inch records, pitched as environmentally-friendly collectible items. Now the startup has taken the logical next step by releasing a device to play them on.
Tag: Hardware
Metadata-handling ‘studio companion’ wins OpenPlay’s CoLab hackathon
Inaccurate metadata is the scourge of the music industry, certainly in terms of getting the right people paid fairly for their work.
International Entrepreneur of the Year 2026 nominees: Leo Ballesteros (Atonemo)
Atonemo is a Swedish startup whose Streamplayer device turns any speaker into a fit-for-streaming wireless speaker.
International Entrepreneur of the Year 2026 nominees: Dr. Moti Margalit (SonicEdge)
Startup SonicEdge focuses on ‘micro-sized speakers’ for headphones, earbuds and hearing aids – small speakers with big audio quality.
AI music roundup: Udio on attribution, Splice, Tamber and more
We could have filled the entire Music Ally site with AI-music stories today. But with so much going on, combining them offers a snapshot.
Eternal Research opens pre-orders for Demon Box instrument
Music-tech startup Eternal Research has opened pre-orders for its Demon Box instrument, which creates sounds using ‘EMF’ signatures.
‘World’s first internal music player’ is a hit on Kickstarter
The latest music-hardware project to surge past its target on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is Groove Thing.
OpenAI has hardware ambitions – and a $6.5bn deal to ignite them
OpenAI is making a lot of money already from its AI technologies and services. Now it wants to get into hardware too.
Samsung’s Harman acquires Bowers & Wilkins and Denon parent company
Samsung says it “plans to solidify its global No. 1 position in the consumer audio market” after its Harman subsidiary acquired the consumer audio division of Masimo. Harman/Samsung now owns […]
Sonical goes crowdfunding for its ‘appable’ AI headphones tech
A startup called Sonical has launched a crowdfunding campaign focusing on “AI for your ears”. By which it means smarter headphones, or as the company pitches its technology: “Headphone 3.0 – the first […]
Meta reveals its latest VR headset and Orion AR glasses
Our main story today focused on Mark Zuckerberg’s views about AI and training in an interview. However, he also had news to talk about.
Sonos lays off 100 staff members – about 6% of its workforce
Connected speaker company Sonos is having a complicated time of it, having caught flak from users about a recent app update that many Sonos owners saw as degrading their user experience. Now, the […]


