Well people, we all know that you know a thing or two about technology. How about music?

Regardless of your answer, you should like this musical gadget. I bet that 99% of you (or people in general actually) haven’t heard of something like this in their lives, never mind actually seeing one. I myself have only seen such an instrument once in my life - albeit a homemade one (with a below average playability - you try playing by poking at pencil-made dots).

Fortunately, our prayers have been answered - we got a professionally manufactured version of this retro instrument (meaning no pencil dots). Invented in 1967 (40 years ago) this wacky idea for an instrument is making a comeback thanks to people from IWOOT.

Right, I’m getting too far ahead of myself. Most of you probably still don’t know what’s a stylophone. A stylophone is an instrument that makes sounds based on the position of a special pen on a pad of the stylophone (different positions result in different resistance to currency - yeah, I sort of saw the plans for that homemade monstrosity I mentioned earlier).

I’ve got to add that even though trying to play the homemade stylophone was frustrating, it was still an amusing way to occupy myself. A quality stylophone should be a pure pleasure to play.

By the way, this stylophone is a bit different from it’s predecessors. You can plug in your mp3 player to it and play along to your songs (after all, we do live in the age of mp3’s - this was to be expected, and I say it’s a pretty good idea).

The Stylophone is £14.99 (Approx USD $26.98) at IWantOneOfThose

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