Seen on New Scientist's One Per Cent
A new electronic toy manufactured by Tomy will soon be encouraging Japanese users to touch each other, in groups of up to four, as a way to create music. As described on New Scientist’s One Per Cent, the device apparently passes a slight electric current through the users’ bodies, allowing signals to be received by the synthesizer when touches complete the circuit. Depending on where the users’ bodies connect, different sounds are evoked.
If I hadn’t actually seen one of Mattel’s Harry Potter Vibrating Broomsticks I’d have said that things like this only seem like good ideas in Japan. Unfortunately, asking for trouble is a vice common to all humans.
…honestly officer, I was just trying to make a little music…