A guitar with lasers of light instead of strings and the world's largest Cheeto are just two of the oddities on display at the second-annual Gizmodo Gallery in SoHo in New York City.
For just a few days, fans of the high-tech gadget blog can walk around and see or touch some of the wildest and geekiest devices and concepts featured on the site throughout this past year.
"It's not your Best Buy to come look at gadgets of today, though we do have some gadgets of today and you can even buy them. Not here, but you can go out and buy them at a store," Joanna Stern of Gizmodo.com said. "But we have a ton of other stuff on display from our past or that you can't necessarily see yet in our technology, so it's kind of a good blend of where we've come from in our technology and where we're going."
One older toy taken one step further is the three-dimensional Etch-A-Sketch.
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"So basically, you've taken that two-dimensional, small Etch-A-Sketch, you hold in your hands and we've blown it out with a design company called O2 to put it together," Stern said. "It's on a 42-inch screen on the wall, you put on your 3-D glasses and you can actually control the Etch-A-Sketch with the typical knobs, though they're a bit bigger. Hand-sized, instead of for your fingers."
Another wall panel that looks like a giant iPhone can turn a person's touch into a row of digital flowers.
"It has a display behind it so you touch it, drag things across the screen, paint with it," Stern said. "There's one really nice feature where you can swipe across it and illuminate a whole row of flowers."
One could plant real flowers in a big mud pit which is actually, a mud-based computer mouse.
"You can push the mud around and actually control a projected ball projected by an LCD onto the mud and it's one way of looking how you can control things using new interfaces," Stern said.
Finally, for those who prefer not to get their hands dirty, the gallery has live musical performances on automated instruments, without bothersome human musicians.
