Tag: instrument
The Guitar That Can Type An Email Makes Email Interesting Again
For me, checking and replying to emails is the most boring part of my workday. It's the only boring part actually. I have learned to accept that it's a necessary evil since so much business is done online these days. The bizarre thing to me is that email marketing is still the number one most effect ...
Touch Sensitive Poster With Conductive Paint Is A Musical Instrument
Back in the old days, before technology was all around us, people really only had two options to make music. They either had to buy a musical instrument, or they had to make a musical instrument. These days, having an instrument to make music is just an option. To a professional musician, none of th ...
Make Music Without An Instrument With The Korg Kaossilator 2
With modern technology, not being able to play an instrument is no longer a roadblock for people who want to make music. The Korg Kaossilator 2 is a handheld, cost-effective synthesizer that allows nearly anyone to create full-length music tracks. If you've always wanted to make your own music witho ...
3 Amazing Star Wars Custom Guitars You Have To See To Believe
I think when it comes to custom work, one of the most creative bunch of people around are Star Wars fans. They seem to be able to create anything based on ships, accessories or technology found in the epic saga of Star Wars. We have seen a lot of musical instruments based on Star Wars over the years ...
Mario Guitar Is Another Flawless Custom Build
To get a little bit of a retro feeling into my day, I recently set out to play some Duck Hunt on the old Nintendo NES. It was almost a surreal feeling to once again point that infrared gun at the TV while trying to hit those ducks. It surely isn't as precise as all of the gadgets we have available t ...
TRON Custom Guitar Build Is A Lightshow In Itself
It is amazing what people create to make a stage show a lot more intriguing. All we have to do is have a look at Lady Gaga for example, and we'll see that a show can be as creative as the limit of our imaginations. Of course it takes a lot of people to pull off the most groundbreaking shows, but it' ...
Han Solo In Carbonite Guitar Custom Build
Discovering creative new instrument builds that have just been unveiled to the world never get old. Usually instruments of today are within the interface of your computer and are controlled by a midi keyboard. But sometimes a creative and dedicated person sets out to create something that we haven't ...
R2-D2 Guitar Build For The Sci-Fi Rockstar
It's time once again to open that sci-fi door and see what could possibly be behind it this time around. We have come to learn that people really like to make things that combine their favorite hobby with a real life item. In this particular case, that would be Star Wars and a guitar. Well, it is re ...
Mogees: Turn Any Surface Into A Gesture Musical Instrument
In the ongoing search for weird instruments, I have once again ventured out to see what I can find. It's not easy, I tell you that. There are so many instruments out there that finding one that has to do with technology and the future is somewhat a search that will keep you busy for hours. When you ...
TabStrummer Lets You Rock Out With Key Strokes
Is there anything cooler than technological innovation? I guess there is, but it so happens that without it, we wouldn't be able to show you these articles and bring you the awesomeness so to speak. Pretty much everything is powered by electronics these days, and to get by, we need to understand it ...
Extraordinary Guitar Sculptures Rock The World Even Harder
We have seen some amazing instruments created from all kinds of stuff here. We've featured everything from a Millennium Falcon guitar to a Nintendo NES Harmonica (or whatever you want to call it). They are all uber creative, and I can almost say that I would totally pick one of those over an ordinar ...
Lego Roland Jupiter 8 Synthesizer Brings Back The Retro
There is one block that is the foundation of the world, or at least that's what we geeks would really like it to be. I used to say that "Lego is the solution to everything," and you probably agree with me because if you think about it, it's cooler than cool. The creativity you can get out of it is j ...
Nintendo NES Guitar: It Doesn’t Get Much More Old School
There have been a ton of customizations during 2010, and it seems the trend is going to continue in 2011. We've seen pretty much everything become an instrument that you can actually use to rock your heart out with. What makes some of these people take their beloved epic '80s gear and mod them int ...
Now You Can Play A Solo On… The Millennium Falcon!
What do you think about when you think about an instrument? You probably think about a guitar, a piano or even a set of drums. If you're a geek, you probably think about a measuring instrument or maybe even a top of the line computer. If you do, you're quite normal and shouldn't worry a thing abo ...
Flip Notebook: The Coolest Notebook A Geek Could Have!
We may have our computers to help us for our presentations and for taking documentations in meetings, but a notebook is our best friend when it comes to writing our to do list, especially when our batteries run out. A notebook is also a good thing to have to write our journal entries and, of course ...