@SquareWheel: Agreed. And with a song like "Still Alive" (or any given Justin Bieber song -wink!-) where the vocals have already been "T-Pained," it'd be a simple process of firing up Antares or EVO and pitch-shifting the entire track back up a few half-steps.

@Sonicloud: It probably isn't. I'm thinking (and again, THINKING, not knowing for sure) that the program adds a bit of delay and/or reverb to the track while slowing down the play time. But that might not be necessary if the track already *has* reverb on it. Best way to test it? Get something like a audiobook or…

I think this is a great thing, but I have just one...*tiny*...pet-peeve about this whole thing. The sound that this process produces — not the process itself — is something that experimental electronic artists have been doing for years. Lusine Icl, Monolake, Tyco, Biosphere...hell, even composers like Michael…

@swampthing: Or maybe a Liberty Prime one for Anchorage, Alaska!

I'm assuming these are targeted at the general consumer, so I won't comment on how I probably won't shell out $200 for these. Rather, I'll just throw one tiny little quip out there:

It'd be interesting to see how shareholders react to this particular flip-flop. I had always considered Google, Inc. to be a bastion of "internet human rights," but it seems like you can't promote net neutrality *and* make a decent profit in this industry.

@CaptainJack: I think BN's big selling point is that they have a physical store as well as an online site, compared to Amazon's online store.

@noamjamski: This new Kindle is $10 cheaper than the comparable nook models, but the tradeoff is that the nook has an LCD screen and virtual keyboard as opposed to the Kindle's fixed QWERTY board.