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Kickstarter Project Turns the Gameboy into a Musical Instrument

The Nintendo Gameboy. One of the most iconic portable gaming systems in the history of video games. Its brick-sized form has occupied many a nerd for hours on end with it’s monochrome green-grey display and carnival like sounds. How could you possibly wring more geek joy out of this device?…

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Utamin is One Ugly Hairless Mogwai Theramin

Have you ever wanted a Mogwai? You know, those creatures from Gremlins who remain cute and cuddly as long as you don’t expose them to sunlight, feed them after midnight or get them wet? While this new toy from Japan doesn’t really look like a Mogwai, it does sing like…

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Gibson Limited Edition Firebird X Guitar: High-Tech Axe Supports Apps, Ships Today

The Gibson Firebird X guitar is a limited edition, but that alone isn’t what makes this guitar special. The guitar has 20 revolutionary features according to Gibson that were impossible to have even five years ago. The features include improved audio quality with a dynamic range exceeding 100dB. The guitar…

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FlashHarp USB Harmonica: Hootie and the BlowFlash

I had a couple harmonicas as a kid. I liked them because all you needed to do to annoy the hell out of the parents was blow on one for like 30 seconds. I hated it because blowing on the harmonica was all I could ever do. I could never…

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MIDI Hats Make Music While Looking Ridiculous

When I first saw these things, I honestly didn’t know what to say, but you get used to ridiculous headgear pretty quickly around here. These MIDI hats were designed by Sunny Oh and Anna Obikane, and allow you to make music. Ridiculous or genius, I have trouble deciding which it…

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TurboHarp ELX: The Harmonica Goes Electric

I’m always coming across all sorts of interesting inventions over on Kickstarter, and this one is definitely one of the more unusual ones I’ve seen lately. The TurboHarp ELX is what its inventor calls “the world’s first and only fully-electric harmonica.”…

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LEGO Ukulele Perfect for Geeky Hawaiians

I took guitar lessons when I was a kid, but I never practiced because practicing anything wasn’t for me. The instructor kicked me out of class, and I moved on with my life. I have never seen a ukulele in real life, but I always thing of big Hawaiian dudes…

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Zoybar TOR 3D Printed Guitar Looks Cool and Doesn’t Sound Half Bad Either

If you ask me, the uses for 3D printing technology keep getting more and more impressive. Take, for example, this guitar that had its body parts manufactured using a 3D printer. If you watch and listen to the video below of Bård S D’s open-source Zoybar TOR guitar, I think…

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Koopa Troopa Guitar: Rock Out With Your Turtle Out

Koopa Troopa on a guitar. ‘Nuff said.…

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Upenn Pr2 Robot is the Loneliest Little One-Man (or One-Robot) Band

I’m a sucker for robots playing musical instruments. But despite the technical skill it took for the team to get a PR2 robot programmed to play both keyboard and drums at the same time, he just seems a little lonely up there on the stage without some other robot companions.…

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Fully Playable Electric Guitar T-Shirt: This One Goes to 11

While I’ve seen everything from keyboards to LEDs integrated into t-shirts, this is the first time that I’ve seen an actual guitar put into a t-shirt. That’s not all: this funky t-shirt comes even with an amplifier. The t-shirt is wired up with digitized samples of the major chords from…

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Theranana Theremin Banana: a Truly Musical Fruit

I’m filing this one away in the “why?, why they heck not?” bin. This off-the-wall contraption is an optical electronic theremin stuffed inside a fake banana.…

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Roland Lucina Ax 09: Shoulder Synthesizer or Keytar? Does It Matter What Its Called?

To me, yes it does. Keytar is just too silly for me, right down there with slanket and yogilates. I can roll with shoulder synthesizer though, and that’s exactly what we have today, the Lucina AX-09 by Roland. Set to debut at Musikmesse 2010 in Frankfurt, the Lucina will apparently…

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Three-iPhone Ocarina: Wtf?

This weird iPhone musical instrument was spotted at a meet-up of MAKE Japan. Of course. There are three iPhones in that plastic (acetate?)... thing, running what seems to be an Ocarina-like app. I'm guessing the contraption sends the air blown through the mouthpiece to all three phones at once...

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Tag: Musical Instrument

Kickstarter Project Turns the Gameboy into a Musical Instrument

Utamin is One Ugly Hairless Mogwai Theramin

Gibson Limited Edition Firebird X Guitar: High-Tech Axe Supports Apps, Ships Today

FlashHarp USB Harmonica: Hootie and the BlowFlash

MIDI Hats Make Music While Looking Ridiculous

TurboHarp ELX: The Harmonica Goes Electric

LEGO Ukulele Perfect for Geeky Hawaiians

Zoybar TOR 3D Printed Guitar Looks Cool and Doesn’t Sound Half Bad Either

Koopa Troopa Guitar: Rock Out With Your Turtle Out

Upenn Pr2 Robot is the Loneliest Little One-Man (or One-Robot) Band

Fully Playable Electric Guitar T-Shirt: This One Goes to 11

Theranana Theremin Banana: a Truly Musical Fruit

Roland Lucina Ax 09: Shoulder Synthesizer or Keytar? Does It Matter What Its Called?

Three-iPhone Ocarina: Wtf?

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