Create an AV happening wherever you go with this miniscule but mighty setup

DJing is so 1993. These days it’s all about the multi-sensual, multi­media extravaganza that is VJing – and, more specifically, nano-VJing. In order to take your live audio and video sensation onto the streets, you need the most portable kit going.

Tonium’s spectacular Pacemaker 60GB (R6 000, www.pacemaker.net) forms the cornerstone of this set­up. It’s unique in moulding a pair of decks, an effects-laden mixer and up to 15 000 tracks into one pocket-friendly ingot of funk.

Klipsch’s squint-to-see-them Image X10 headphones (R2 260, import only www.klipsch.com) provide the requisite micro monitors, while mixes are blasted out through Blaupunkt’s Velocity2Go boom box (Rtba, www.velocity2go.com). Sure, there are smaller speakers, but not ones that can replicate the volume levels of a miniature PA in a single, easily luggable box.

No other laptop of a similar size to the Sony P-Series (from R19 000, www.sony.co.za) has the power to run proper visualisation software, nor the storage (up to 128GB SSD) to snaffle a bank of video clips, but its ultra-crisp 8in (20 cm) screen is nevertheless too poky to supply your burgeoning crowd with the visual kicks they crave.

Hence Acer’s diddy, brick-sized K10 (R7 000, www.acer.co.za), an LED-powered DLP projector that thrashes any pico projector on resolution (858×600) and brightness (100 lumens), but will still fit into your grab bag. It’s some kind of black magic, we tell thee.

This article was taken from the September-October 2009 edition of Stuff magazine.