FAD GADGETS

Rhodri Marsden on three of the latest must-have gizmos currently putting the prog in progress.

HANAGO You might think the world has enough instruments (after the trombone and the stylophone what else did we need?) but the South Korean Hanago is persuading me there might be room for one more. Faintly medieval looking (and sounding), its 16 strings can be plucked or thwacked to make a zithery, dulcimer-esque sound, and they’re laid out in a more intuitive way than a guitar or piano keyboard – just one fret, to pitch each string up a semitone. And at $99 (£80) for Kickstarter backers, it’s a bargain too. www.koaura.com SPARK GO We featured the Spark Mini in Prog 129, and marvelled at how something so tiny could be so powerful, resonant and sonically mellifluous. Well, Positive Grid have gone one better (and one smaller). The Spark Go’s…

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