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    June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment

    MIT has created a guitar that utilizes wood and electronic sensors to imitate nearly any guitar sound. These are the same amazing researchers that have created The Sixth Sense, & Siftables
    Acoustic instruments with their wood-grain patterns produce unique sounds, but a prototype guitar built by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student combines the natural acoustics [...]

    I want these Siftables instead of those lame wooden letter blocks for my daughter. Toy blocks that think!

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    The SCS.3M is an amazing touch sensitive DJ controller that works with many music software programs.
    You can check out their site for more information. Stanton
    Richard Devine puts it through its paces here and describes why he likes it.

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    Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of “Ridiculous Fellows” from Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” orchestral suite. This exhilarating performance from TEDx USC features the Yamaha Electone Stagea, a rare, imported instrument specially programmed by Qi herself.
    About Qi Zhang
    Qi Zhang is a Master’s candidate at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of [...]

    These new skins can be cut and placed on any device. Most people, I imagine, will put them on a phone. But couldn’t you see it being on your door and changing color when it is locked? Or how about on your iPod and change when you put on different songs? How about on your [...]

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