There must be a musical vibe in the ether today – this is another instrument related post!

I’m more of a drummer than a guitarist myself – moving all your fingers at the same time always looked way too complicated. I have been on the receiving end of some badly tuned guitars though and it isn’t a pleasent sound.

I’ve also seen people spend hours painfully plucking a string, tweaking the tuning, plucking the string… so this actually looks quite cool.

Plug this tuner into the (electric) guitar, place the head over one of the tuning pegs and pluck. The StringMaster figures out what note the string is actually playing (as opposed to what it’s supposed to be playing) and turns the tuning peg appropriately until the note is correct. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Would you love the opportunity to be able to play the piano anywhere you happen to go? Well, the roll up piano is perfect for carrying along with you. It rolls up perfectly to fit in your purse, backpack, or briefcase. You will be able to take your piano right along with you for any occasion. Take it will you on vacation, to family reunions, or just to a friends house.

Everyone will enjoy being able to sing along or playing his or her songs with your roll up piano.

The roll up piano has 49 full size keys that are created with flexible rubber, has one hundred different instrument sounds, one hundred accompaniment rhythms, ten built in demo tunes, built in speaker with volume control, headphone and external amplifier or speaker outlets, and the ability to record your music and play it back.
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I’ve never thought I’d see Apple iPod and sex toys in the same sentence, but that is exactly what the aptly named iBuzz is all about.

I won’t go into too much detail here (as some people read this at work) but it basically interfaces between your iPod, you and your partner (partner is optional). The various attachments then vibrate in time to the music (so you may want to be a bit choosy about what you put on). Can also be used with other MP3 players provided they have a suitable jack socket (oh er) or as a standalone device but wheres the fun in that

[LoveHoney.co.uk found via The Unofficial Apple Weblog].

Ever had a problem trying to watch DVD movies on drives that aren’t suitable for your region? Most DVD drives have limited number of region change allowed before the hardware locked the region on the final choice. Freak not, as Fengtao Software Inc. has developed a solution just for users who would like to play multi-regional DVDs.

DVD Region+CSS Free enables you to watch and copy any region-coded/CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any DVD drive! Furthermore, it fully supports region-protected (RPC2) DVD drives, and no firmware modifications are required. What’s more impressive is that it will even work if users have used up the region counter and can no longer change the DVD drive’s region.

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This is a follow-up of the previous article on Paint.NET v2.5 Beta 4. Designed and developed at Washington State University with guidance from Microsoft, Paint.NET, a student project programmed in C# and GDI+, is a photo and image editing tool designed for computers running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000.

Bringing powerful features to the desktop, such includes a myriad of special effects, plug-in extensibility, and layer manipulation, to enhance the image editing process. Digital photographers and artists can enhance their images with features and effects such as levels adjustment, cross-layer cloning, anti-aliased tools, motion blur, and red eye removal.

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Always start abreast of what Mother Nature has in store without any type of loud obnoxious noises with the new Ambient Weather Beacon.

This great gadget keeps you up to date with weather data by using color and light. It will glow red in you are due for warm weather, blue if cold weather is on the way. If you see the light pulsating then you are in for a chance of snow or rain.

All you will have to do is just glance over to learn the weather forecast for the day. No one will even know that this beautiful designer glass artwork is a sophisticated weather beacon.
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Our children are or should be treasured angels, but in today’s’ society children are being kidnapped, injured, and even killed by strangers and even members of their families. Every year around 800,000 children are reported missing. When you turn on your television and watch the news, you are sure to see where another child has been abducted or is missing. Some of these children are grabbed going to school or on their home from school, snatched while playing in their safe neighborhoods with their friends, abducted from their own front yards and even sometimes from their own bedrooms.

If your child is ever missing, a recent photo may not be enough to aid law enforcement agencies to the whereabouts of your child. Abductors have a way of changing the looks and identify of your child, by cutting their hair, dying their hair, using a different name to talk with them, and moving completely out of the country.
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Yet again we have another gadgety clock to report on, what’s different about it this time, well the battery is powered by plain old water.

It does seem a pretty inventive (and cheap) way to power a clock (a water refill lasts 2-3 months). If us humans can be powered by the elixir of life, the liquid beer I don’t see why a simple LCD clock can’t be powered by water. Heh maybe filling it with bear would make time travel possible.
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