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Use the C3PO Star Wars guitar to happily strum the theme song
When we look at the innumerable Star Wars memorabilia out there we wonder what would be that one collectible that brings all the best qualities of a fanboy out. There’s surely got to be some amount of visual representation. Then you could think about it being something geeky yet cool. And of course, who could…
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CargoGuitar: Once a cargo truck, now a guitar
The CargoGuitar is taking blogs by storm. This ingenious design of a once-functional-cargo-container-turned-into-instrument (phew!) seems to be quite the thing for this generation. We’re tired of seeing cargo containers only make it in crime dramas. A collaboration between artists Marcelo Ertorteguy, Takahiro Fukuda, and Sara Valente saw this notorious urban legend converted to a giant…
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New study reports guitars to be real-life chic-magnets!
Looking for a great way to impress the women around you? Well, drop the fake machismo and pick up a guitar instead! According to recent studies, guitars are more than just beautiful instruments that churn out music with six strings and a bunch of frets. These work as chic magnets and have recently been found…
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Gibson unveils the Min-ETune automatic guitar charger
Guitars are fussy musical instruments that require tuning time and again. Given the fact that guitars use tensioned strings that go out of tune after continuous use, guitarists tune back their acoustic and electric guitars before strumming. Making life a little simpler for music lovers, Gibson has unveiled the Min-ETune, an affordable and compact automatic…
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Playing the Super Mario theme on this Super Mario guitar is plain overkill
When the power of an electric guitar is mixed with the notoriously lingering Super Mario theme, the composition that follows is pure evil. In a good way, that is. Much of what we’d like to hear flowing from this amazing Super Mario hand-crafted guitar. The 24-free six-string packs everything from a floating tremolo to a…
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Guitarion concept helps hemiplegics make music!
Strumming songs on a guitar with a single hand has never really been attempted before and the folks at the Chiba University’s Graduate School of Engineering have nearly perfected a way to do so! Particularly designed for hemiplegics, people with unilateral paralysis caused by a stroke or other such reasons, the Guitarion concept simply requires…
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gTar, the digital guitar for geeks uses an iPhone for a brain!
We’ve just stumbled across the latest way to exploit the goodness of the Apple iPhone that’s bound to leave true guitar enthusiasts frowning at what could be a new wave of geeky technology-assisted “musicians”. By Incident Technologies, the gTar requires you to plug an iPhone 4/4S into the slot provided which in turn hooks up…
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Clippard Air Guitar uses pneumatic actuators to rock and roll!
An air guitar is indeed the quickest and easiest instrument out there to master. Well, given the fact that it’s made of nothing but air, with a dash of your imagination, this instrument usually has you wind up looking like a wannabe trying to rock his soul away. Now, the air guitar concept finally turns…
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Strum your tribute to Star Wars with the Millennium Falcon electric guitar
Looking for a great way to show your geekiness on stage? This one-of-a-kind electric guitar is bound to have the crowds go wild at the fact that it’s simply awesome and is enough to woo just about any geek rocker. Crafted from a Millennium Falcon toy, this guitar pays tribute to the spacecraft flown by…
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Peavey T-200 Guitar Featuring Auto-Tune makes real guitarists frown
Auto-Tune has been helping contemporary pop-singers sound like the angels in the skies above since pretty long now. The better half of the music industry might’ve taken this software development in a bad taste, yet we still have artists resorting to Auto-Tune, and selling those not-so-original recordings to hungry fans who’d devour music made by…
