Just when we thought Guitar Hero had removed every shred of dignity from the once proud profession of "rocking out," along comes Paper Jamz to do away with all pretense. WowWee, known primarily for its creepy robotic toys, has put some of its technical chops into a new musical line of utterly flat instruments. The "paper" guitar and drum sets use capacitive sensors to pick up on touch, and there's even a fake amp built of cardboard to complete the ensemble.

Surprisingly, it all works. Each $25 guitar is packed with three different songs, and

When you get rid of the strings, is it really still a guitar? We’ll leave that to the philosophers. In the meantime, take a look at just such a specimen. The Misa Digital Guitar is great looking, but somehow we don’t think it will catch on.

Then again I’m no musician. Maybe it will revolutionize music. The Misa is really just a MIDI controller that you can interface with software on your PC and you can use said software on your PC and use a normal guitar. Whatever you like.

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Based in Sydney Australia Misa Digital has created a string-less digital guitar. Their aim was to create a simple and effective instrument with a minimalistic interface and configurable sound module end. There are no strings on this guitar and your right hand doesn’t pluck, it controls sound.

Check out the video of it in action after the jump.

The digital guitar is created using Linux Gentoo 2.6.31 and a MIDI controller. The digital Guitar needs

A company called Misa Digital introduces its Digital Guitar that comes with on strings but a touchscreen for you to control sound. The guitar is based on Linux 2.6.31 offering flexibility. It is basically a MIDI control that must be plugged into a MIDI capable sound module.

The Misa Digital Guitar offers MIDI out and has Ethernet port as well as built-in SSH server.

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Now you can retire from your gig as air guitar rocker and play your shirt instead. This Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt even has its own mini amplifier. When you strum the shirt with the special magnetic pick, it delivers some awesome distorted-sounding guitar chords.

You can’t rock individual notes, but there are 15 different power cords, covering all the major keys. Once you figure out where to activate each of the chords on the shirt’s “frets,” just press your finger there and start