Everyone wants to be a rock star - they get the adulation of the masses as well as tons of money. Unfortunately, not everyone is cut out to be one, so you will just have to fantasize with the Air Guitar Pro from TakaraTomy. This device comes in the shape of a guitar neck and ends abruptly at that. Tunes are played by holding your fingers on chord buttons on the fretboard while strumming the air. An infrared sensor in the neck of the guitar will detect your hand motions, playing back the appropriate sound. Should the internal speaker be insufficient for your Rock Star antics, there is always the option to hook up the Air Guitar Pro to an external amplifier.
Takaratomy recently came out with a new toy that will help you clean up your chops before the next Air Guitar Championships. Taking the air guitar to the next level, the Air Guitar Pro consists of the upper neck of a guitar and plays chords as your fingers pass through infared ray strings that make up an invisible fretboard-of-sorts. All you do is strum the air to produce accurate sound.
More advanced than your Guitar Hero variety, the controller has seven buttons of different chords but also additional buttons on the side to change from major, minor, augmented and diminished sounds. It even includes ten beginner songs to get you up to speed. We think it's pretty advanced for such a compact design and now you can actually produce some sound when playing the air guitar.
