PocketString helps you practice guitar on the go

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The PocketString($30) is a tiny 4 fret board that lets you practice the fundamentals when you can't take your guitar. It's not an instrument and it doesn't make a sound, but this portable mock-up of the first four frets of a guitar could help you satisfy the playing itch as well as giving beginners...
Price: $30   |   BUY

Pac-Man ukulele

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Awesome Pac-Man inspired ukulele, Cool! On sale at etsy seller celentanowoodworks for $600.
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Keith Medley and His 27-String Guitar

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Keith is an amazing talent as a musician, guitarist and master luthier. He designed and built his Medley 27-string guitar in order to play the music in his head.

Autobot Transformer ukulele

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"This ukulele with the Autobot logo transformers into…well, nothing. " It is made to order by etsy seller celentanowoodworks for $550.
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Price: $550   |   BUY

4 GB Playable Harmonica USB Flash Drive

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This is a 3-inch harmonica USB flash drive by etsy seller BackyardBrand.: 
"I handcraft each 3-inch FlashHarp harmonica USB flash drive to give you the same freewheelin' feelin' musicians love so much they never let go of it. "
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Price: $59   |   BUY

Motorola Motoactv

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Motorola Announces the MotoACTV Smart Watch, which is an 'Android-based nano' watch, weighs in at just 35 grams, a 1.6 inch touchscreen display and has a 600MHz processor. It is a GPS-enabled watch with a smart music player, featuring 8GB or 16GB of internal storage for music, a wireless bluetooth headphone. And you can pair the MOTOACTV with your Android phone for call and text receiving, an FM radio. The SF700 and SF500 headphones with built-in ear sensor detects your heart rate without the uncomfortable chest-strap. The device will be made available in Novebmer for $250 (8GB) and $300 (16GB). The SF700 and SF500 wireless headsets will be $150 and $100.

Price: $250+   |   BUY

AK-47 guitar

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César López, a sculptor of Columbian extraction is creating custom guitars out of decommissioned guns, such as AK-47s. The instruments are called escopetarras, a portmanteau of the Spanish escopeta meaning "rifle" and guitarra meaning, well, guitar.
"The idea came to Lopez back in 2003 when, while playing in front of a Bogota country club, he witnessed a car bomb explode. In the ensuing confusion, he noticed how the army guards all carried their rifles in a manner that resembled the way he carried his guitar and out of that explosion came the first escopetarra—a Winchester rifle/Fender Stratocaster hybrid. "
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Bassoforte

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Diego Stocco combined parts from a bass guitar and a piano to make a new musical instrument he calls a bassoforte.
"The neck is from a broken electric bass, as a bridge I used a cabinet handle, the pickups are from a guitar, and the part at the top where the strings are attached is a chimney cap, which works as resonator as well as percussive sound."

Piano Gloves

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Here's a prototype of the Piano Gloves that enables users to play a full size piano without any piano present. Designed by Scott Garner.  This design is composed of two digitally enhanced gloves that use Arduino and processing to track the player’s movements and create the corresponding piano notes. User just puts on the gloves and then plays the piano on any flat surface, such as a desk or table, and the gloves will know what notes the user is intending to play.

Cracklin Rosie on a Whole Lotta Mobile Phones

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By steffest.
"This is a free interpretation of Cracklin Rosie, played on 2 Android devices, 2 Windows Mobile devices and 1 iPod Touch.
the Piano and Drum sequencers are written by me, Pocket Stombox is used for the real time effects and the main instruments are the fantastic iShred and Guitar apps by Frontierdesign."

Sony Waterproof W250 Walkman

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Sony has launched the new Waterproof W250 Walkman, the water-resistant design can be worn as you train, in the rain or even in the shower. It supports MP3, WMA, AAC an Linear PCM formats. it will be available from late May 2010. The Sony W250 Walkman comes in a choice of different colors: pink, green, black and white. Available in 2GB and 4GB.

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Noteput - Cool interactive music table

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Noteput is an interactive music table with Cool tangible notes, that combines all three senses of hearing, sight and touch to make learning the classical notation of music for children and pupils more easy and interesting. By Jürgen Graef & Jonas Heuer.

The Misa Digital Guitar

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This Cool Misa Digital Guitar with a touchpad that plays digital guitar, watch the video. Cool! By Sydney-based designer Michael. If you are interested in purchasing, you can contact it via mail.
"DIGITAL GUITAR VS ELECTRIC GUITAR - THE DIFFERENCE?

I am obsessed with digital guitar. But I also love electric guitar, and I have learned what it's good at and what it's capable of. Some of its most important qualities and characteristics stem from the very fact that the electric guitar is made out of wood and strings. A guitar string is "beautiful" - because the sound generated comes from the very vibration of the string, interfering with a magnetic flux and inducing an electric voltage, which is then amplified. Why would you want to emulate that? It is perfection. It is pure nature. It is in the analog domain. I did not intend the Misa digital guitar to replicate a traditional guitar.

THE REASON FOR THE MISA DIGITAL GUITAR

Guitars by their very nature have limitations. To create sound you need to hit a string, so that the sound at its most intense point is always the beginning of the pluck. The left hand controls what notes to play, and the right hand controls when to play these notes and the intensity of the notes. Effects can be inserted into the signal chain, but they are usually foot pedals which makes the experience of controlling effects disjointed from what your hands are doing. Plus, you can only really make use of one pedal at a time. Even in the (rare) case that controls are mounted on the guitar, the hand needs to switch between strings and controls. This may be okay if you only use effects occasionally, but when every note you play needs the controls set differently - good luck with that. 
There are no strings on this instrument. The right hand doesn't pluck strings, it controls sound.
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Boombox with iPod Cradle

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It is a iPod Boombox. The Lasonic i931($120) is a portable music system in true retro ghetto blaster style, you can play this Boombox via an iPod dock.
"The i931 features playback of MP3s via an iPod dock, usb port, or SD/MMC card slot. In addition, the i931 has AM/FM radio, remote, mic input, and bass and treble EQ controls. The system is capable of blasting out 15 watts per channel through separate woofers and tweeters. Headphone jack output Radio function (AM/ FM) Large text display on LCD Full function remote controls Separate bass and treble controls Many adjustable features in menu Accurately real time clock display Volume level indication (LED) Powerful Audio Output USB slot compatible Support USB flash drive and SD/MMC card to playback MP3 files iPod control available for playback, charging and interaction Mic Mix with /ECHO VOL Max power 15W x 2 Dimension (mm):650 x 166 x 365 "
Price: $120   |   BUY

Musical Kettle

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The Musical Kettle by Naoki Kawamoto. I love this idea!
He wanted to contribute to the design of daily domestic noises. alarms, mobile phones, a doorbell; he is of the opinion that not enough thought has been given to the noises they produce. The musical kettle is a part of series 're-design soundscape'. As the kettle boils it whistles your favorite tune.
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