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Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band Drums

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:09:00 +0000

Here is a demonstration of using both the Guitar Hero World Tour Drums for Wii and the Rock Band Drums for Wii to create a full MIDI Drumset: Camille, the programmer of OSCulator, got his program working with the Velocity-sensitive Guitar Hero drums. Download OSCulator ...

Engadget found this 29 hours ago on jordanbalagot.com

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shaped USB announced

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Home News The Beatles Apple-shaped USB Announced The Beatles Apple-shaped USB announced Posted by Khidr Suleman on Wed 4 Nov 2009 All you need is... data storage, apparently What with the recent success of The Beatles Rock Band , the infamous foursome seems to have delveoped an insatiable ...

T3.com All found this 36 hours ago on t3.com

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No Doubt sues Activision over Band Hero [Updated]

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:20:40 +0000

Rock band No Doubt has filed a real-world lawsuit over its virtual role in the just-released Band Hero edition of the Guitar Hero video game series, claiming that the game has “transformed No Doubt band members into a virtual karaoke...

GeekSugar found this 3 days ago on latimesblogs.latimes.com

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No Doubt kick up stink over Band Hero avatar

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:15:00 +0000

American rockers No Doubt have taken offence to Activision using their likeness in the company's new Band Hero game and are suing for breach of contract. The band, fronted by Gwen Stefani, had signed on the dotted line for Activision to use its music and likeness in the game but are upset that ...

T3.com All found this 43 hours ago on techradar.com

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Polk Audio's HitMaster: your own personal Rock Band stage monitor

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Sheesh. Just days after Altec Lansing shocked the gaming world with a dedicated stage monitor for Guitar Hero, Rock Band or any other gaming title you'd care to pump through a mini-wedge, Polk Audio has stepped in to do the same. As we witness the beginning of a curious, um, beginning, the ...

Gizmodo found this 13 days ago on engadget.com

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Muscle-computer interface to play Guitar Hero without the guitar

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:04:25 +0000

As computing begins to grow beyond the desktop computer and mobile consumer electronics, the tactile input devices are slowly fading out, and the gestural interfaces, wherein specific hand, face and even eye gestures are used to control the computers are steadily moving in. In an effort to ...

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Ultimate Air Guitar Hero

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:48:29 +0000

We've covered all sorts of Guitar Hero mods , but none as minimal as this. By using a standard electromyograph attached to the forearm, researchers at Microsoft's Muscle-Computer Interface group were able to determine the position and pressure of all five fingers. Sure, this might be useful ...

Gizmodo found this 11 days ago on blog.makezine.com

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Football Hero mod takes Arduino to the Kasabian-approved big leagues (video)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:36:09 +0000

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 sensors and absurdly large fretboard ...

GEARFUSE found this 11 days ago on engadget.com

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Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming]

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:42:03 +0000

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 ...

Mobilewhack.com found this 11 days ago on gizmodo.com

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Microsoft researchers build muscle-computer interface, play air Guitar Hero

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:20:00 +0000

Legendary DIYer Johnny Chung Lee may have only been with Microsoft for a few months , but it looks like he's already making his presence felt, even when he's not working on projects himself. His latest effort involves getting videos from the User Interface Software and Technology (or UIST ) ...

Tech Blog found this 11 days ago on engadget.com

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Exclusive hands

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:18:00 +0000

Exclusive hands-on video and gallery: Band Hero review T3 rocks out to some... erm...Taylor Swift. This November sees the launch of Band Hero, which is basically Guitar Hero for those non-gnarly pristine souls, who'd rather spend their Saturday nights watching X-Factor than leaving a trail of ...

T3.com All found this 8 days ago on t3.com

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Guitar Hero CEO looks to Natal

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:18:00 +0000

The CEO for Activision's Guitar Hero brand has told TechRadar that the company is excited about the possibilities for future guitar, pop and DJ games using Microsoft's Project Natal motion control, revealing that Activision is already working with the new body sensing tech Activision's Dan ...

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Apparel as instrument: Rock Guitar Shirt

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:31:06 +0000

Now you can give up air guitar and start playing your shirt. This ThinkGeek Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt includes its own mini amplifier (that actually goes to 11), and when you strum the shirt with the magnetic pick, it rips out some raucous samples of distorted-sounding guitar chords. ...

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DJ Hero hit by low pre

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:16:22 +0000

DJ Hero hit by low pre-order sales woe Activision's fun turntable game hasn't attracted many pre-orders, according to analysts DJ Hero doesn't go on sale until the 30th of October, but already it's being hit with poor sales expectations. In fact, sales projections have been cut by 61 per cent, ...

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Video: DJ Jazzy Jeff revealed as DJ Hero character

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:16:22 +0000

Yo! Back up now and give a brother room... If Boom Shake The Room is not to appear in the game, we'll be crestfallen, but while that remains in question, we're delighted to exclusively reveal that DJ Jazzy Jeff will appear in DJ Hero as a playable character. Yes, Will Smith's former partner in ...

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The Who: Rock Band set for 2010? - News at GameSpot

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:47:34 +0000

Source: The Who lead singer Roger Daltry told Massachusetts paper The Republican that The Who will be getting its own Rock Band. When an interviewer brought up the recently released The Beatles: Rock Band, Daltry said, "The game, yeah, yeah, they're going to be doing a Who one next year. There ...

T3.com All found this 10 days ago on uk.gamespot.com

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Guitar Hero without a guitar

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:46:57 +0000

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 account . If you've closely followed the tech ...

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Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:49:29 +0000

By Andrew Liszewski Hot on the heels of this new Guitar Hero video game I’ve been hearing about comes this Electronic Rock Guitar shirt from ThinkGeek . Using a special magnetic pick and your fingers, you can actually strum and play the guitar printed on the shirt, almost like the ...

Geeky-Gadgets found this 10 days ago on ohgizmo.com

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