Stylophone Retro Pocket Synth
The Stylophone is a miniature stylus operated synthesizer invented in 1967 and used by such iconic musicians as David Bowie, Kraftwerk and Erasure. It features a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus. That's right, over four decades ago with computers the size of a gymnasium and nary a PDA in sight the Stylophone was a portable electronic music instrument with stylus based control. This exact recreation of the original sounds the same as it did in the 60s. Simply remove the pen and tap any key for classic synth sounds. There is a switch to add vibrato and you can choose from one of three different retro organ type sounds. The tuning knob on the bottom allows for some pitch-bend effects if you must. The Stylophone is one of the simplest electronic instruments you will find, but it's minimal style is a big part of its charm.
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iCADE - iPad Arcade Cabinet
When the iPad was announced, we all crammed into a conference room to watch live and drool over every shiny corner and reflecty icon. After the glow of the initial announcement wore off, many of us came to the conclusion that the iPad was actually pretty useless. "It's a giant iPhone!" some said. Others exclaimed, "WTF, no Flash!?". Still, we knew that most Apple fanbots (us included) would have to have one anyway. Knowing that many of our loyal geeky customers would eventually get their retractable claws on an iPad at some point, we knew we needed to take it to the next level. What cool things could we do with the iPad that you, our lovely geek customers, would squee over? A few brainstorming sessions later, the idea of a MAME cabinet came up and we knew we'd struck gold. How cool would it be to slide your iPad into a desktop-sized arcade cabinet and rock it old school with some Battlezone or Tempest? Enter the iCADE iPad Arcade Cabinet! To use the iCade, gently slide the iPad into the cradle. The iCADE uses Bluetooth to connect to the iPad so there's nothing else you need to do. You're ready to "insert coin" and game on! To bring the iCADE to life, ThinkGeek has partnered with ION. Atari, the first name in classic arcade games, also signed up to bring a huge suite of classic arcade titles including Asteroids to market with iCADE support built right in. Atari's Greatest Hits Download Required for iCade Atari's Greatest Hits brings the best of retro gaming to iOS with 100 Classic Atari Games. This suite brings you the hottest Arcade and 2600 titles from Atari. For those who love the classic gaming experience this handheld breakthrough is sure to guarantee hours of fun. Fully compatible with the iCADE.
Midnight Shot NV-1 Night Vision Camera
Digital cameras aren't exactly the most exciting gadgets these days... that's why you can trust your friends at ThinkGeek to up the ante and deliver the Midnight Shot NV-1 Night Vision Camera. You get 5.0 megapixels and an invisible infrared flash to light up your subjects in total darkness. Or experiment with Infrared photography that lets you do crazy stuff like see through some types of fabric and materials. The Midnight Shot NV-1 Night Vision Camera is switchable between standard photography mode and infrared night-shot mode. When you enter night-shot the infrared blocking filter normally over the lens retracts to let all infrared light through, at the same time a super-bright IR LED invisibly illuminates (to your eyes) the entire scene. You'll notice that during the daytime in night vision mode you can see through some types of clothing, paper and other various thin materials. This is because infrared light can penetrate these surfaces while light visible to the human eye bounces off. The Midnight Shot NV-1 sees both visible light and infrared light, making both viewable to humans. If you want to accentuate this effect you can make your own (or buy) an infrared filter which allows only infrared light to pass through, eliminating the visible light spectrum. Here are some details: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/the-improved-diy-infrared-filter-for-stygian-photogs/ Important Note: Respect the privacy of your fellow humans and don't use the Midnight Shot NV-1 Night Vision Camera for evil. Product Features Digital camera allows you to shoot in absolute darkness Shoot still shots or video Experiment with Infrared photography that lets you see through some types of fabric and materials. Built-in Invisible IR illumination Switchable between regular shot and night vision mode Sensor: 1/2.5" CMOS 5.0 Mega Pixels Lens: f=7.45mmm Image Size: 1.3M: 1280 x 960 - 3M: 2048 x 1536 - 5M: 2560 x 1920 - 9M: 3488 x 2608 (interpolated) - 12M: 3920 x 2490 (interpolated) Digital Zoom: 8x LCD Display: 3" LTPS LCD Focus: Fixed Focus Range: 0.4m ~ Infinity / Macro 0.12 - 0.4m Shutter: Electronic Shutter Speed: 1/4 - 1/3000 seconds Exposure EV: AE/+-2EV (1/3 EV Step) Flash: Electronic Flash Night Vision: IR Illumination Internal Memory: 16M External Memory: Uses standard SD cards up to 8GB Photo Format: Jpeg Video Format: AVI Video Resolution: 640 x 480 Battery: 900mAh 3.7v Li-ion Dimension/Weight: 97x59x18mm, 108.5g
Magic Wand - Programmable TV Remote
You know you have always wanted to be a wizard. But not one of those swish and flick wizards from the movies. You want to be the Dungeons & Dragons wizard - the party's controller. See that word there? CONTROLLER. It means you control the battlefield; you control everything! Sure, you're squishy and sometimes there's collateral damage when you let out a blast, but it's all in a day's work. As a wizard, you have a choice in implements, but everyone knows The Wand is the ultimate when you want to be an elite controller. Our Wand may not make legions of kobold minions explode into flames, but it will learn up to 13 commands from your existing remote controls and map them to particular magical motions. Flick the wand from side to side to flip the channels, twist the wand to turn up the volume. A beam of light will shoot out the unicorn tail hair and magic will happen! The Wand can learn from any remotes in your house and once you master its 13 movements, you can mastermind a symphony of electronic enjoyment from the comfort of your couch. Then, and only then, are you an epic level controller.
Melodyhorn Air Powered Synth
Maybe steampunk is a little bit of a stretch. After all, this is made of plastic. But we know you steampunk and cosplay folks. Just because it's plastic doesn't mean you won't paint it to look all oxidized and old-timey. Then you can waltz about in your long coat and goggles and play tunes on your melodyhorn. Or perhaps you could do a Sideshow Mel type character and express yourself solely through music for the entire convention. (Let us know how that goes - especially when you're trying to order lunch. Remember, a G7 chord means, "No onions.") The Melodyhorn is a brand of melodica. It has the keys of a piano, is played like a woodwind instrument, but is polyphonic like a keyboard or a harmonica. Before you start thinking we're crazy for bringing you a wacky frankeninstrument, take a look at this list of famous recording artists who have used the melodica on their albums or in their live shows: Ben Folds, Faith No More, Oasis, Depeche Mode, The String Cheese Incident, Cake, Cyndi Lauper, Indigo Girls, Herbie Hancock, and even The Beatles. Ever wondered what instrument plays the opening theme song to the US version of the TV sitcom The Office? That's a melodica, too. Get in on the hottest, wackiest musical trend and wrap your lips around this steampunk synth!
Aluminum Sound Tube MP3 Speaker
"Aluminum tube, ThinkGeek? RLY?" Yes, rly. We're serious about music and were shocked when we tried out the Aluminum Sound Tube mp3 Speaker for the first time. It sounds just like a full size speaker and gets surprisingly loud. All this from an aluminum tube the size of a tube of toilet paper. Perhaps the days of "bigger is better" for speakers are finally going away? It even has a built-in mp3 player and rechargeable battery, so it can play music without being connected to anything. Now you have a choice – connect it to your iPod or leave your iPod at home and just bring your tunes and your speaker. You can even attach it to your bicycle handlebars and menace the neighborhood.
Otamatone Electronic Instrument
Most musical instruments don't have faces. It's a shame, really, as almost everything can be made better with a cute face. Well, fear not friends, as we've found one of the cutest musical instruments ever - and it has a face! It's straight from Japan, and it's called the Otamatone Electronic Instrument. We'll give you a little idea of how this adorable thing works, we'll show you a little video of it in action, and then we'll set you off on your merry way to sing your own songs. Ok, so in theory, playing the Otamatone Electronic Instrument is unbelievably easy. You place your finger on the stem to select the pitch. To get vibrato (or any sort of wah-wah effects), you just squeeze the note's rubber cheeks repeatedly. This will open and close the little dude's mouth. Now, we did say easy in theory. That's because the strip on the stem has no pitch labels or frets, so you really have to have a good ear. That said, you can easily just slide between notes, both for ease of playing and for even more musical effect. The Otamatone Electronic Instrument is wacky, adorable, distinctive, and can be a great instrument for some unique electronic performances.
USB Classic Joystick
We at ThinkGeek are skeptical of product claims. We pour all our experience with technology, actual and science-fictional, into analyzing the specs, and we generally make the right choices: we bought classic Macs and Sidekicks and loved them, yet deftly avoided PC Juniors and Windows Mobile phones. Okay, well, there was NGAGE... Anyway, when this guy we know showed us a slick glossy ad ripped from the inside cover of the September 2010 issue of "Compute!" advertising a new console with 80M-polysprite-per-second HVIA graphics and integrated Arcadiaworld Uplink, well, we thought it over seriously. For a millisecond. Then we entrusted our money order to the alternate universe of its origin. Four-to-six weeks later, a brand-new rainbow-striped box with the classic Fuji logo appeared on our desk. The system is beautiful, with its gleaming black finish with real wood inlay and a glowing touch-sensitive control panel (we think it's some sort of EL e-ink), but our HD monitors, 10 gigabit Ethernet, and THX-certified surround system are useless in the face of its 9 RCA "hypervideo" connectors, three-cup acoustic coupler, and something called an "audio overthruster." So we're tabling the inter-dimensional graymarket plans for the most part -- with one exception! In a twist of fate, just like modern consoles from our universe, the controllers -- still proudly labeled "joysticks" -- connect to USB! We've tested these joysticks thoroughly with classic Atari 2600 games from our universe via our Macs and PCs using the terrific Stella emulator, but it also works as a standard USB joystick! We'll post our reviews of Combat XIII and Outlaw 3D as soon as we reverse-engineer the rest of the interfaces. Warning: These USB joysticks do not connect to classic Atari hardware. They're USB. USB wasn't even invented until 1996! How to Play Halo on a Virtual Atari 2600 Former Halo team lead Ed Fries started tinkering with Atari 2600 programming in late 2009. A year later, he'd hacked his way to a nice 2-D version of Halo -- he even had a limited run of cartridges made! How to play: Plug your USB Classic Joystick into your PC or Mac Download Stella for Windows, Linux, or OS X Download Halo 2600 Open Stella Select Halo2600_final.bin Stare slack-jawed at the awesome animated title screen Press Fire to start
YouRock MIDI Electric Guitar
The musicians at ThinkGeek HQ have been having a major geekfest over the YouRock MIDI Electric Guitar. Even merchant monkey Chris is intrigued, and he's a total saxist. We could lay on the funny, but this instrument is serious business, so serious monkey is going to be serious, okay? What is the YouRock Guitar? It's an electric guitar that never needs tuning. That's right, you can skip right over the out-of-tune-and-awful stage of learning guitar and get straight to the good stuff. Even professional guitar players are shocked at how great the YouRock feels and sounds. The speed of the triggering, sliding, and articulation make this one awesome axe. It's a full-fledged MIDI controller. Most MIDI controllers out there are in keyboard form. This is great if you're a pianist, but if you're a guitar god, trying to get your great riff from your brain into your computer via a set of imitation ivories can be difficult. Now you can load up your favorite multi-track recording or sequencing software, plug in your YouRock, and output MIDI data directly. Look Ma, no keys! It's a synthesizer in guitar form. The YouRock is 25 guitars, 50 synths, 25 tracks, and 50 drum tracks all in one package. Experiment with 50 different tunings with just the click of a button. Be whatever you want to be, instantly. It's a Rock Band controller. If you've ever wanted to feel more badass while pressing those green, red, yellow, blue, and orange keys, you can use the YouRock Guitar as a controller for Rock Band. It's totally portable. With the pre-built samples, a headphone jack, and MIDI all in a relatively small package, you can lay down ideas, record, and write all from one device and your laptop. Set up in your bedroom, your office during your lunch break, or even your hotel room if you're on the road. Never lose that great idea again! The one-of-a-kind You Rock touch sensitive fretboard feels just like a real guitar. Designed to be accurate and responsive while maintaining a "real" guitar feel. The best part about the YouRock Guitar is the price. You can get all of these things separately, but to have them all in one instrument for under $200 is absolutely the crazy-awesomest part of the YouRock Guitar.
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