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'Beat on the Block' Drum Gloves Won't Give You Neil Peart Paws

by Caleb Johnson on June 8, 2010 at 07:25 AM

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Traditionalists (or real musicians) might turn up their noses, but a group of Dutch Belgian (thanks, murasaki378) college students recently developed a pair of gloves that work as a drum kit. According to Designboom, four students at Artesis University College of Antwerp created the 'Beat on the Block' drum gloves (video after the break), which work by tapping the fingers on a flat surface. The resulting drum beats and cymbal clashes are blasted through a speaker that's built into a small backpack. More than one pair of gloves can be plugged-in at a time, this possibly creating the world's nerdiest drum circle.

The drum gloves fall somewhere between playing 'Rock Band's' drum kit and beating on one of those awful electronic drum pads. In other words, sliding on these gloves and tapping a table won't make you a rock star. But we still figure there would be enough people willing to forgo work in favor of banging on these all day -- if the Belgian kids ever wanted to go commercial with their invention. [From: Designboom, via: PSFK]

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