Takara Tomy’s Ningen Gakki musical toy lets you smack your friends to the beat (video)

If you want to get your conductive body orchestra going, you no longer need 15 bikini models and a bunch of conductive paint. You just need a Ningen Gakki, coming this summer from Takara Tomy . It has four conductive patches on the limbs of its vaguely anthropomorphized shape. If two people each touch one of the patches and then touch each other a circuit is created and a note is played. Up to four people can play songs or drums by clapping hands or, as you can see in the video below, generally slapping each other about. The notes don’t appear to get louder the harder the hit, but perhaps that’s for the best. Continue reading Takara Tomy’s Ningen Gakki musical toy lets you smack your friends to the beat (video) Takara Tomy’s Ningen Gakki musical toy lets you smack your friends to the beat (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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