Everything needs touchscreen these days, but this touchscreen phenomenal has gotten into the wrong place: a guitar. Here’s the Misa Kitara Digital Stringless. Yes, it’s stringless, so it’s digital. This futuristic guitar has an innovative multifunction touchscreen, with MIDI controls and an on-board polyphonic synthesizer with effects, thus allowing guitarists to fully express their musical vision.

Instead of using strings, guitarists control sound through their fingertips, using the touchscreen and fret board to play, enhance and alter sounds in real-time. Surprisingly there’s even an OS in this guitar. Powered by a Linux OS, the Kitara digital guitar also has a 1.25-inch audio output, a 3.5-mm headphone out and comes with 100+ digital sounds, 6 pre-loaded effects, 24 frets and 144 notes. The Kitara packs a body of high-density injection-molded ABS polymer, while the Kitara Limited Edition features a precision-etched body of solid aluminum and elegantly serialized for authenticity. The Kitara and Kitara Limited Edition are priced at $849 and $2,899, respectively.

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Now we know why Apple has been struggling to get the Beatles into their iTunes store, despite a 7 years hu-ha. That’s because the Beatles sells! After a week of appearing in iTunes for the first time, the Fab Four sold 2 million iTunes!
Yes, that’s about 2,000,000 Beatles songs sold in a week in US’s largest online music store. Fans (old and young) of the four dudes that revolutionize rock n roll music wasted no time in downloading their favorite tracks. Apple has announced that iTunes has seen the sale of 2,000,000 Beatles tracks and 450,000 Beatles albums in the first week of their availability.
When Apple announced it had struck a deal that would finally bring the Beatles to iTunes, the news doesn’t seem all that inspiring despite having Apple making it looked huge in a way. Oddly, it didn’t look exactly trembling with excitement. Sure, it was good news and fans had been waiting nearly a decade to see the lads from Liverpool on iTunes, but we figured most people would have ripped their Beatles CD collection a long time ago. Surprisingly, it seems some people were standing by, ready to pounce on the digitized Beatles back catalog as soon as possible, after all these times.

The top ten selling Beatles tracks on iTunes at the moment are as follows:

1. “Here Comes the Sun”
2. “Come Together”
3. “Let it be”
4. “In My Life”
5. “Blackbird”
6. “Something”
7. “With a Little Help from My Friends”
8. “Yesterday”
9. “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
10. “Dear Prudence”

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It’s been quite some time since Sennheiser refreshes their headphones line-ups, especially the wireless headphones. Now their new RS-series comes with Kleer transmission technology to product movie theatre quality audio via uncompressed wireless transmission. These headphones operate without compression and can be sued without any audio detail loss. Great stuff from Sennheiser as always. Their new wireless headphones will allow you to move around while watching your HD movies or enjoying cable-free music at a radius of up to 328 feet (RS 160 up to 65 feet, RS 170 up to 262 feet and RS 180 up to 328 feet). The Sennheiser RS 160, RS 170, and RS 180 are priced at $199.95, $249.95 and $299.95, respectively.

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Japanese beatboxer Hikakin is creating the Beat box version of Super Mario. Hmmm… or you prefer Greg Patillo version? Video after the break.

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Check this out, a music created fully using Craftsman tools. Mixed and edited by Kutiman. No musical instrument were used in the video. Video after the break.

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Youtube user “greyson97″ is a talented 6th grader. He has uploaded a video of himself performing Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi at a school festival. Just about half a month this video hits 10-millions views. Video after the break.

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Remember the iRig we talk about the other day. I think it’s a worth buying device for guitarist. Recap, “AmpliTube iRig a combination of an easy-to-use instrument interface adapter and guitar/bass tone mobile software. With the AmpliTube iRig, you can plug your guitar to your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and choose between 5 amps (clean, crunch, lead, metal, bass) with full controls, 11 stompbox effects (delay, flanger, phaser, overdrive, distortion, filter, wah, fuzz, octaver, chorus), 5 cabinets and 2 microphones (dynamic and condenser).” Check out the video demonstration after the break.

IK Multimedia is introducing its new AmpliTube iRig a combination of an easy-to-use instrument interface adapter and guitar/bass tone mobile software. With the AmpliTube iRig, you can plug your guitar to your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and choose between 5 amps (clean, crunch, lead, metal, bass) with full controls, 11 stompbox effects (delay, flanger, phaser, overdrive, distortion, filter, wah, fuzz, octaver, chorus), 5 cabinets and 2 microphones (dynamic and condenser).

“Simply plug the iRig interface into your mobile device, plug your instrument into the appropriate input jack, plug in your headphones, amp or powered speakers, download AmpliTube for iPhone Free and start rocking!

You’ll have at your fingertips the sound and control of 3 recombinable simultaneous stompbox effects + amplifier + cabinet + microphone just like a traditional guitar or bass stage rig!

Add amps and effects as you need them — you can expand your rig with up to 11 stomps, 5 amps, 5 cabinets and 2 microphones in the AmpliTube iRig app custom shop.”

More pictures after the break.

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The guitar was built by steffest. It consists of two Androids, one iPod Touch and WinMo devices. Check it out after the break.

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On The Rocks sings and dances the Bad Romance by Lady Gaga. On the Rocks is the University of Oregon’s premiere all male a cappella ensemble. They did a great work. Check it out after the break.