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Kapwan
10/27/09

In reply to DIY Larger-Than-Life, Soccer Ball-Controlled Guitar Hero Game
This is a lot better than that Bike Hero video. I kinda wish they had this at an event or theme park so I could test my skill. #diyfootballguitarhero
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
10/27/09

In reply to Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars
Nice!
This could also be applied as technology for amputees to command a robotic hand or something.

Or enhance it to make a glove that reads muscle hands to produce some sort of keyless keyboard? #electromyograph
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weatherman
10/27/09

In reply to Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars
No whammy bar interface? I'll wait for version 2.0 #electromyograph
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weatherman
10/27/09

@weatherman: Seriously, though, that's some freakin cool tech. Call me when I can get a subdermal implant. #electromyograph
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SuperTuna
10/27/09

@weatherman: Um...I think we ALL know where the whammy bar is. #electromyograph
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kinda.loopy88
10/27/09

In reply to Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars
this would only work up to medium difficulty, how would you hit that orange note with only 4 fingers? #electromyograph
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Odin
10/27/09

@kinda.loopy88: I hear the Enabling Hard-Mode On Guitar-Hero Using Always-Available Input With Muscle-Computer Interfaces Through Growth Of Sixth-Digit project is coming up with the solution.
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SQLGuru
10/27/09

@kinda.loopy88: Apparently you weren't the guy that videoed the Dell MID the other day......he just uses his extra thumb. #electromyograph
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NorwoodIsMyHero
10/27/09

In reply to Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars
So now instead of looking like you're 8 years old playing with a plastic toy, you can look like your a grown man idiotically strumming an air guitar. #electromyograph
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Bigbadbikernerd
10/27/09

@Norwoodismyhero: Makes me think of this creepy guy I saw at a Molly Hatchet concert (don't ask why I was there). All by himself, banging out the air guitar in khaki shorts and a dirty polo shirt...just didn't seem right. #electromyograph
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despisethesun
10/27/09

In reply to DIY Larger-Than-Life, Soccer Ball-Controlled Guitar Hero Game
Pfft, what a lame waste of time. If these guys put half as much effort into kicking soccer balls at a real guitar as they did this, they'd have learned a real skill and could make music instead of just doing some repetitive ball kicking. #diyfootballguitarhero
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Greg Lloyd
10/27/09

In reply to DIY Larger-Than-Life, Soccer Ball-Controlled Guitar Hero Game
Apparently you can't produce anything anymore without filming it's production, and then including that in the final footage.

I'll preface future comments with a video link of me reading the Giz article, thinking, preparing my witty comment, and then typing it out furiously on the keyboard. The comment itself will be mediocre as usual, but the production value will be fantastic! #diyfootballguitarhero
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Daniel
10/27/09

In reply to DIY Larger-Than-Life, Soccer Ball-Controlled Guitar Hero Game
Those buttons, that ingame voice, that UI.
It's Frets on Fire
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Sticks Calhoun
10/27/09

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They look like they're having a ball! But I could never get my kicks this way. That's why I just use the 'net to achieve all my goals and post them on line in a forward-thinking manner. Or sometimes I just wing it. Except for that one morning when I had mismatched footwear. That sock err had me seeing red all day. I was such a card! #diyfootballguitarhero
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Rosa Golijan
10/27/09

@Sticks Calhoun: I'm gonna blow the whistle on you for taking up nearly every pun! #diyfootballguitarhero
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Sticks Calhoun
10/27/09

@Rosa Golijan: Hey, it combines different genres! Just pick a different string of puns to run through until you hit rock bottom or strike a chord with your audience, whichever takes center stage for you. Me? I prefer a downward spiral. #diyfootballguitarhero
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Griffehpoo
10/27/09

@Sticks Calhoun: Now here's an expert who sees that puns are no simple game. Truly, a player who knows how to push the right buttons. His level of mastery gave me pause as I attempted to select the proper words to describe it. #diyfootballguitarhero
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Sticks Calhoun
10/27/09

@Griffehpoo: Before I promoted this comment, I looked it up and down and up and down and read it left to right, then decided it was to be a select start to an excellent opinion piece!
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OMG! Bacon!
10/27/09

@Sticks Calhoun: I definitely don't Contradict that statement! #diyfootballguitarhero
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Elgar
10/27/09

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Coming from someone who couldn't care less about sports or guitar hero: that was fantastic.

Like, watch it repetitively fantastic. #diyfootballguitarhero
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Bluecold
10/25/09

In reply to Polk HitMaster "Monitor" Means Inexplicable Faux Instrument Arms Race Actually Exists
Still, Polk makes some good point in the press release.
"most games are played through standard TV speakers, which are dismal at best."
"Music games like Beatles Rock Band® are rightfully cited for sounding as good if not better than the original releases, so why play them through toys or TVs? A high quality recording deserves a real speaker that reveals all the beauty of the original master, and this is exactly what HitMaster provides."
They may look garish, but I have to agree with Polk on this one. #polk
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curious-character
10/25/09

@Bluecold: Those would be great points if Polk was making something other than only-slightly-better-than-crappy-TV... speakers...$100 for a powered monitor is going buy you a really crappy monitor...this is a toy, no way around it. #polk
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Gordonium
10/25/09

In reply to Polk HitMaster "Monitor" Means Inexplicable Faux Instrument Arms Race Actually Exists
I'm going to cry and get all nostalgic for real musicians when, sometime in the far-too-near future, my kids start going to see bands with names like, "The Real Fake Band", who just play Guitar Hero type stuff on stage, with ridiculous accessories to make it LOOK like a real concert. #polk
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LPAkira
10/25/09

In reply to Polk HitMaster "Monitor" Means Inexplicable Faux Instrument Arms Race Actually Exists
I'm a big fan of Guitar Hero, and some of these accessories still make me want to weep for the future of humanity. #polk
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Andrew Dickerson
10/20/09

In reply to Altec Lansing Stage Gig Is a "Guitar Amp" For Guitar Hero "Guitarists"
Awesome, no all I need is for them to come out with a fisher-price lighting set and I could have a fake stage, with fake amps, and fake guitars, putting on a fake show. My fake life will. be. complete! #alteclansingstagegig
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Lizard_King
10/20/09

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It's not a worthwhile monitor unless I can stand on it and/or kick it over onto security. #alteclansingstagegig
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