In Case You Missed It: Week 43 Round Up

In case you missed anything last week; we have everything from Metallica on your iPhone right through to a $1200 Mouse. Enjoy

Gadgets
Remote Controlled Tissue BoxElectronic Guitar ShirtSucker Alert: $1200 MouseSucker Alert: Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket
Gaming
Nokia Kills The N-Gage – Are You Shocked?Nintendo DSi Get’s BiggerQuickdev16: SNES Developers CartSoccer Hero
Hacking and Security
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Electronic Guitar Shirt

When only wear a shirt with a picture of your favorite instrument when you can actually play it? The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt from the clothing masters at ThinkGeek isn’t just a picture of a guitar, it’s actually a real instrument that allows you to play your favorite tunes right on the shirt. The shirt [...]

RockBand For Those Over 40

Over 40 and wonder what the whole RockBand or Guitar Hero crazy is all about? Want to jump in but don’t know how to? Maybe you would be better off with Dan’s mish-mash of sound and electronics. This guitar has been stripped of all it’s internals and has a CPU and all sorts of cool [...]

Beer Keg Guitar Amp. Beer Not Included

This one is set to definitely impress your friends, if your in college that is. For a mere $119 you too can get your very own 20 watt Heineken mini keg amp. How cool is that.
You can use it as a practice app or on the street when playing a jam looking for some cash [...]

Tesla Coil Guitar Amp

I’ve been to many concerts that featured some incredible light shows. I was even at a Metallica concert here in Toronto that has some wicked flames going on stage, so much so that you were smacked in the face with an intense heat wave, but having shooting arcs of electricity onstage by using a tesla [...]

Build Your Own Tube Amplifier

Most guitarists will tell you that nothing sounds better that a tube based amplifier. The warm tones that a tube amp gives you has yet to be properly emulated with modern day mosfet amps. Gmoon over on Instructables wrote a 22-step how-to on constructing your very own sweet sounding tube based amplifier.
Be warned, this project [...]

Build A USB Guitar

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Why would you want a USB port in an electric guitar? The answer is simple: convenience. By putting a small USB port and audio codec in a guitar, you’re adding an extra sound board. So when you record, your guitar is digitized locally and the signal is transmitted to your computer over a [...]

Rock Band Guitar String Mod

I can’t even count the number of times people say to me “Rock Band isn’t like playing a real guitar, it’s doesn’t even have any strings. This drives me insane and forces me to punch them in the throat. Please don’t confuse the fun of a game with the real world of music. Would you [...]

Jam Sessions – Mini Amp For Your DS

Think Guitar Hero for the DS. Ubisoft takes a serious leap with Jam Sessions for the Nintendo DS. The game is basically a guitar simulator, and while you can play along with whatever the game is jamming, the serious fun comes from the improvisational aspects of the game: You can pretty much play [...]