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This is not the next B-Movie but all about the new Gibson Robot Guitar, the world's first guitar with robot technology. The website features a countdown timer showing that the first run will already be released within a few days.
The guitar is tuned by tiny servo motors that tune all strings in no more than five seconds! The inventor Chris Adams took a bit longer, actually some 10 years to perfect the auto-tuning system but worth the efforts. Accordingly: "We checked the guitar out with some nine-year-old kids, and they picked it up immediately. It doesn't come easier than this - pull the knob, strum, push in, done."
The digital guitar, introduced in 2002, was cited by Time magazine as one of that year's coolest inventions. To find out what the Robot Guitar will be like, get yourself a sleeping bag and find the nearest dealer here for its global launch on the 7th of December.
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I don't know why sources keep citing this as an amazing new invention. Auto-tuners which could interact with the guitar's machine heads have been around for over 15 years. Guitars with built-in self-tuning technology have been around for slightly less, albeit very invasive and expensive. This is a nice development of the concept, but not groundbreaking by any sense of measure that I can discern. And all it does is tune itself - you still play it yourself.
the system has been available for ages, Gibson is just the first manufacturer to implement it into their guitars without having to take your guitar to a luthier.
this pr bullshit is annoying because people thing Gibson invented it, *yawn*