The BillaBoop is a new kind of drumming machine, it recognises sounds that you make like clapping a desk or clicking your fingers and then converts them into a proper drum noise.

BillaBoop has been developed by PhD student Amaury Hazan (students have so much fun) whose studying Machine Learning, Music Cognition and Audio Signal Processing. Which basically means he’s pretty clever and has programmed the BillaBoop to learn the noises that you make which drive the drums.

You’ve probably got to watch the video to understand what this bit of software does, if you can’t see the video click here.

Source: BillaBoop via our gadget forums.