Modern Design: Misa Digital Guitar (video inside)

Music purists...look away! You may not like this new digital guitar but before you cry bloody murder check this out. A completely digital guitar, the Misa comes with a 8.4-inch 800-by-600-pixel resolution LCD touchpad which you strike to hit the notes. No more strings? Well yes but because the touchpad is pressure-sensitive, the harder you strike, the louder the notes will ring. The strings are replaced by 144 “keycap” sensors with 6 sensors across 24 “frets” on the neck, replicating a traditional 6-string guitar setup.

Now check out this video.

A peek into our future? Probably. But keep that Gibson..it'll probably be worth some buco bucks one day.

Via PC World

Thoughts?

Tags: Design:, Digital, Guitar, Misa, Modern, music

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Comment by Otis Luttschwager on April 2, 2010 at 10:56am: aw man this is sweet

Comment by Kevin on February 2, 2010 at 3:11pm: No, No, No! You have to have strings!

Comment by Liam Kersting on February 2, 2010 at 10:50am: It's almost a different instrument than a guitar. It sorta reminds me of Roy "Future Man" Wooten from Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, who plays a "Synth-axe Drumitar," a custom-built guitar with built in synthesized drum sounds.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Futureman.jpg