FireWire Guitar

This is a great idea for a computer peripheral- a guitar that plugs into your computer. Suddenly the electric guitar is so last century. There's also a USB ukulele out there. No word on pricing yet.

"Finally, a guitar you can plug directly into your computer -- no strings attached.

You may never have heard of BridgeCo, but if you've got a FireWire audio interface, odds are their guts are inside. (They make the firmware / hardware platform.) Now they've gone and crossed your FireWire interface with a boutique electric guitar. What does that give you? A FireWire electric guitar, that's what.

Companies have been promising guitars you could plug and play with a computer, but there's always a catch, like a breakout box -- or the thing simply doesn't ship. Heck, we even got a prototype USB-powered ukelele. But this is real, it's at AES here in NYC, and thanks to FireWire, each string can be a separate audio channel."