Hasta La Gadget!

If you’re ready to put down the game controller and try your hand at making real music, the newly announced Fly Mojo MIDI Guitar might be just the thing. This MIDI guitar might be able create music fit for a rock star, but it has a price to match: While it may be out of reach of most current guitar heroes, at $5,199, the Fly Mojo is, well, real.

The Fly Mojo can be used with any BOSS GK Effect Series Pedals and offers full integration with the Roland V Guitar System, GR-20 Guitar Synthesizer: With this high-end computer-compatible axe, you can create virtually a symphony’s worth of music.

The Fly Mojo features a solid mahogany body with carbon-glass-epoxy fretboard and Sperzel Trim-lok tuners. If Mozart were alive today he’d probably create his musical wonders on an instrument like this; that is, if he had a few wealthy supporters hanging around.

Post by Peter Suciu

I know this might surprise some of you, but there are women in the world who like things done a certain way–in a nerdy way, to be more specific. For example, they prefer their marriage proposals to arrive via a video game, or at least tangentially related to video games. That’s right, geeks aren’t just guys–there are lady geeks, too.

So what do you give your geeky girlfriend for Valentine’s Day? Check out Gearlog’s gifts that only a truly geekified gal will appreciate. And make sure to check back for Part Two of our geeky Valentine’s Roundup!

The iBuzz (above)
Treat your love to some pleasure–set to the sound stylings of Barry White or Al Green, of course. Plug your MP3 player into the iBuzz Two, and the toy delivers music-activated vibrations with four pulsing patterns and 11 vibrating speeds. You can plug the two provided bullets into the iBuzz Two, or you can plug in any sex toy that has a mini-jack plug. It’s £19.99 (about $30 in the US).

More after the jump.

It’s almost New York Toy Fair time (that’s coming up on President’s Day weekend), but LeapFrog got a jump (yeah, I said it) on the competition by giving us a peek at toys to come.

To follow on the success of the Tag (check out our review), a read-along gadget introduced last year, LeapFrog’s bringing out the Tag Junior for younger kids.

As with the Tag, kids press the Junior onto words and pictures in LeapFrog’s specially-made books, and Jr. interacts by reading them out loud, making appropriate noises, and so on. He’s (it’s impossible not to anthropomorphize here) just chunkier and easier to manipulate for smaller hands. Jr. comes with a book to start on, but others will be available as well. Coming this summer as are all the toys here. $34.99 list, for ages 2 to 4.

More new toys after the jump (I said it again).

Tech-toy pioneer LeapFrog announced a new toy for toddlers today at the U.K. Toy Fair: Text & Learn is a “just-for-kids” learning PDA. According to the company:

Games that focus on spelling and basic computer skills–with pal Scout right there to help–are only part of the fun with the Text & Learn, which lets preschoolers exchange text messages with Scout, check Scout’s planner to see what his week en”tails,” and explore in a pretend browser mode. Other learning activities include letter matching, shape identification and QWERTY keyboard navigation.

We like to try all the tech toys ourselves, so we’ll post a hands-on review as soon as, well, we can can our hands on one.

Brand new, fresh off the line Tesla Roadsters look almost like toys, especially to their brand new owners. But these Teslas really are toys — Hot Wheels to be exact. So if you can’t shoot for the real thing (and at over $100,000 who can blame you), you can have a scaled down version for just a few bucks.

While the real Tesla Motors is in trouble again, having raised the price of its Roadster by at least $6,700 and screwed some 400 buyers out of their deposits, these tiny replicas should sell just fine. And speaking of replicas, Autoblog Green has it on good authority that the toys are quite convincing, seeing as the Hot Wheels maker “Mattel reportedly had access to electronic files of the Roadster from Tesla.” Tesla Hot Wheels are available in Metallic Aqua, Metallic Watermelon, and Metalflake Silver. The fourth, Metallic Grey model is said to come out on Valentines Day.