The Sharper Image–a San Francisco-based company, incidentally–is selling the beamz Performance Music System:

• Amazing laser-based invention lets music-lovers be musicians — regardless of talent or training!
• Breaking the laser beams with your hands automatically generates pre-authored pulses, streams, riffs or loops of musical notes or sounds from hundreds of different instruments — strings, keyboards, woodwinds, brass, percussion, even cow bell.
• Choose a complementary rhythm track from 30 original songs in 19 music genres, including jazz, bluegrass, classical, hip-hop, reggae, heavy metal and more. Or create your own track!

Check out the promo video:

One of those bad boys will run you $599.95. What better way to spend your economic stimulus payment is there!!

Somehow I’m not very surprised that the Sharper Image has filed for bankruptcy.

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