Google has been getting quite adventurous with its signature Google Doodles of late, but today's 78th birthday tribute to synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog gets my vote for the coolest yet.
Most clubs no longer allow smoking, so you've got to find something to do with all those old ashtrays and cigarette packs. This cigarette controlled synthesizer brings back some of that flavor, although thankfully you don't need to light up to use it.
"If you can remember anything about the sixties, then you weren't really there," says Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane. Or, like me, you weren't born yet. Still, I can't appreciate a good synthesized diddy — well, we should really just...
Fans of the bad old Eighties — that's "Yo! Flock of Seagulls", marble-washed denim, ice-hockey hair and keytars — look away now. The crazy space bassoon-cum-synthesizer you see these three musicians jamming with on a Moby track is called the...