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Harmonica

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NES Cartridge, Retooled as Harmonica

Anyone who lived through the '80s and had any semblance of cool had their own special technique for blowing in Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges to coax the gray boxes back to glorious 8-bit life. Now one precocious modder has taken this blowing to the next level by gutting an old game and replacing its innards with a harmonica. Consider the dumb video our way of saying don't think so hard now that you're back at work for the week, and that we're sorry you never grew up to become a baseball player/astronaut/cowboy. [via kotaku]

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Gizmodo Celebrates the Fathers of Invention on Presidents' Day

Apart from bringing us laws, wars, peace, hanging chads, lobbies, sex scandals, First Ladies and Rough Riders, there have been presidents and Founding Fathers who have brought us all kinds of gadgets and inventions. Jump to see the best tech that the fearless leaders of the free world had to offer us.

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Multitalented Darth Vader Has a Hoedown With Luke Using Advanced Music-Making Device

Who knew that mouth-breathing thingamajig Darth Vader wears on his face was capable of such down-home, bluesy music? The versatile device is also capable of voice changing, turning Darth's sinister baritone into a rip-roaring hee-haa voice. Darth, we hardly knew ye. [Jibjab]

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Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica Plays the Blues Six Ways to Sunday

Blues harmonica players, or harpists as we like to be called, play the blues for a number of reasons, but one of them is that our diatonic instruments are so limited. When the band changes keys, we have to go rummaging around for another harmonica. Not any more with the Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica made by the company that's been supplying blues harmonicas to the stars for way over a century. More »