If you laughed at the Weezer Snuggie, this will be up your alley. 5Frets.com has made a parody of the Snuggie commercial, but for Guitar Hero.

The article explains how the video was made from scratch, and the ScoreHero/Logitech video contest it was created for.

Windows2000 via www.5frets.com »

"It seems that entirely too often, people wonder what it would be like to see their favorite video games in real life. This results in a nearly infinite number of fan-made videos of varying levels of quality. I’ve done my best to find 12 great ones that span Mario Bros. to Portal. It’s abudantly clear that I’ve probably missed a large number, so feel free to leave your favorites in the comments. Ready…start!

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Ammy and Issun via unrealitymag.com »

Do you fail at Guitar Hero? Can't beat TTFAF on expert? Perhaps you should get yourself a Cythbot and no, it doesn't use the force.

The Cythbot is comprised of a camera for vision pneumatic fingers for playing the popular video game series Guitar Hero.

So why make a perfect Guitar Hero player? To show off what the company is capable of doing.

So far the bot has managed to hit 98%, one percent higher than one of the best human players in the world. The problem is that the fingers are...

Dark Arcanine via blog.wired.com »

Eric Ruckman from over at hackaday has retrofitted a DS into a PS2 Guitar Hero Controller.

He wired the controller buttons from the DS fret attachment to the buttons on the actual guitar, and then even went a step further and hooked the sound to an FM Transmitter so he can play it externally and not just through the tiny DS speakers.

Rock on Eric. We salute you.

Deathsythe via www.hackaday.com »

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We've seen a lot of Guitar Hero bots in our time, but we're pretty certain that Mechanized Rock's take on shredding automatons is something special. The system -- dubbed DeepNote -- actually watches the on-screen action with "eyes" that it uses to analyze notes, which the bot then plays in real-time. Using photodiodes aimed at the screen, the components pick up changes in light within eight nanoseconds, then convert that information to brazen, parent-shocking, full-throttle rock n' roll. ..."

Deathsythe via www.engadget.com »