Tag: GUITAR

Just in time for the holidays, Gibson will release one of the world's most high tech guitars. According to Ubergizmo, the Firebird X features automatic tuning and Bluetooth-enabled, wireless pedal switching. (It's worth mentioning that the Gibson Robot Guitar was the company's first guitar that could tune itself.) Along with those features, the Firebird X -- which will be available as part of a ...

Stolen items routinely appear on online auction sites, and, occasionally, watchful victims will even discover their own missing goods. One burglary victim recently discovered the benefits of such eBay vigilance, although eight years had elapsed since his belongings were actually taken. When Minnesotan Doug Duncan's house was originally burgled, a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special guitar was among the ...

The axe-wielding amongst you might sometimes wonder, "how can I make tweeting while rocking easier?" The Guitar Sidekick solves that conundrum by mounting your smartphone above the nut on your guitar neck. OK, for those who have to do everything with their phones, this could be handy for tuning or referencing scales. The rest of us are just wondering where you put your cigarette. ...

We've all wanted to smash a guitar into thousands of pieces like The Who's Pete Townshend, but unless you're making Pete Townshend-type money, it's not a wise idea -- until now. According to Wired, manufacturer K's Japan has designed a line of guitars that are meant to be played, smashed and recycled. Costing just $55, the aptly-named 'Smash' has a lightweight neck and hollow body carved from ...

'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock' looks to be the most ridiculous installment of the rhythm-based game, which is saying an awful lot. The cartoonish, but otherwise humanoid characters are getting booted in favor of pig-beasts, demons and what appears to be Storm's little sister. To accompany the new epic story mode and over-the-top characters, Activision is packing in a new guitar that players can ...

If you are too busy, or too impatient, to break in your stringed instrument, you might want to consider a new hobby. Still, a small start-up in Gainesville, Florida might have a device that'll get that vintage tone for you -- without much work or time. According to The New York Times, the small plastic box, called ToneRite, slips onto the strings of a violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar ...

Call us musical Luddites if you will, but we're wondering why people can't seem to leave the venerable, and long-ago perfected, electric guitar alone. Gibson just keeps jamming more and more robotics inside, EverTune has developed a potentially sustain sapping bridge that never falls out of tune, and Worst of CES honoree YouRock Guitar puts half stings and cheesy MIDI tones inside a video game ...

Tired of keeping that guitar tuned? Then consider EverTune's bridge a godsend. Unlike Gibson's steeply priced Robot Guitar, which tunes itself, EverTune's latest effort is affordable, compatible with existing guitars, and acts more like a maintenance tool. According to DVICE's review, once you tune the guitar, the bridge will keep it locked in perfect pitch indefinitely. According to EverTune, ...

The world needs another instructional guitar tool like it needs another hole in the ozone layer, but in all seriousness, this one is stupendous. Er, it exhibits remarkable potential, considering that it's not yet beyond the concept stage. Designer Eugene Cheong has dreamed up the Maestro, an attachment that can supposedly be adapted to work on any guitar (of the electric variety, we presume) and ...

Apparently perturbed by the success of games like 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band,' Oasis's Noel Gallagher recently told Total Guitar magazine that "playing a guitar is not a f**king videogame," CVG reported yesterday. The lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the seminal Britpop band (and one half of the most hilariously cantankerous pair of British brothers known to man) is not known for ...

CES is closed, and while we still have some news to clean up and hit after the doors have been locked and the sidewalks rolled up, let's give you a roundup of the notables from the last day of the show. CES Booth Tours - CES is a lot of news and announcements, sure, but it's also a lot of opulence. If you couldn't make it to this year's show in sunny (but cold) Las Vegas, check out this series ...

There is no surer way to catch a geek's attention than to play the 'Super Mario Bros' theme on an instrument other than a 16-bit gaming console Whether it's piano, a flute, a guitar, or, even more impressively, two guitars! We've seen it played on a Theremin, a Tesla coil, and even by driving an RC car past a series of bottles filled with water. So why, then, do we care about the admittedly ...

From all the coffee shop musicians here at Switched and Engadget, we'd like to sincerely thank Belkin for producing this marvelous device. For the rest of us who run around on stage like madmen, we have our doubts about how well this will work. Nevertheless, the BreakFree Connectors were designed to add a magnetic breakaway point in your 1/4-inch cable, meaning that things will simply snap away ...

'Guitar Hero' may be fun and cool, but one thing it certainly can't do is teach you how to actually play guitar. In fact, the connection between playing 'Guitar Hero' and actually playing guitar is tenuous at best. Just ask Slash. That's where Music Wizard is hoping to one up the gaming phenomena by taking the basic concepts of 'Guitar Hero' and applying them to an actual guitar. 'Guitar ...

Hype Check: Gibson Robot Guitar On December 7, guitar enthusiasts around the nation will be able to get their callused hands on the Gibson Robot Guitar, a first-of-its-kind, self-tuning instrument packed with a computer and motorized tuners. This special edition Les Paul will initially only be available in limited quantities -- 10 guitars for each of 400 retailers across the nation. What it ...