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Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming]
gizmodo.com - 10/27/2009
Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming]
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Now this is cool. Using a standard electromyograph attached to the forearm, the geeks at Microsoft's Muscle-Computer Interface group set up Guitar Hero to react to the position and pressure of all five fingers. How badass is this? In all honesty, overpriced toy instruments cluttering up my ...
procrastineering.blogspot.com - 10/27/2009
Guitar Hero without a guitar
— procrastineering.blogspot.com — This year, I'm helping the User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) conference put their proceedings videos online... so that more people can access them. So far, I've gotten most of the videos from this year uploaded to the conference YouTube ... (more) Guitar Hero without a guitar

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Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved big leagues (video)
engadget.com - 10/27/2009
Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved big leagues (video)
— engadget.com — Some folks say less is more, but we'll bet they never saw Guitar Hero being played by... kicking footballs against a giant wall. This epic undertaking will give your plastic axe a major inadequacy complex with its huge wall-mounted piezo vibration ... (more) Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved ...

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Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]
kotaku.com - 10/28/2009
Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]
— kotaku.com — Welcome to Bobby Kotick's nightmare, a world in which Guitar Hero controllers could be rendered useless, a... world in which video games can be played by monitoring muscle actions. A brave new air... (more) Wonder At The Guitar Hero Muscle Controller [Clips]

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Mobilewhack.com:  Microsoft’s Muscle-Computer Interface Group creates “Air Guitar Hero”

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Microsoft’s Muscle-Computer Interface Group creates “Air Guitar Hero”
Mobilewhack.com — Someone at Microsoft’s Muscle-Computer Interface used an electromyograph attached to their forearm to create an Air Guitar Hero. Just to let you know, this wasn’t part of a study to create an axe-less Guitar Hero/Rock Band. This is actually Microsoft’s experiment to create devices that can use the user’s fingers and other actions without having a device itself. The video above really says it all. Source Tags: ...

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