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This amazing hack-job is the NES Guitar, fashioned almost entirely from recycled parts by the appropriately-named Circuitmaster.

The body is, of course, an old SNES console, combined with a reused guitar neck, a new bridge, a single-coil, height-adjustable pickup, a pair of strap buttons, a volume knob and of course a jack for your cable. Inside you won’t find anything much but empty space – Circuitmaster removed the guts of the console so that you, the buyer, can add in your own custom electronics. And if you’re wondering how the thin plastic case of a SNES can possibly be strong enough to keep the strings in tension, then don’t: it doesn’t. The neck and bridge are mounted on a piece of solid oak inside.

The video below shows you how it sounds, which is honestly not so good, likely thanks to the lack of sustain given by the flimsy plastic box. That doesn’t make this any less awesome, though.

Circuitmaster has made precisely one of these so far, and availability is currently marked as “sold out”. No surprise, really, when you look at the price tag: a ridiculously low $150 (especially considering that the neck is from Ibanez).

NES Guitar [GetLoFi via Geekologie]

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If you worked at Tamiya, the Japanese model-kit company, you’d have the chance to hand out the coolest business-card ever made. At first glance the letters on the “card” look like a stencil cut into plastic. Peek a little closer and you see that it is itself a tiny model kit.

Break the letters from their surrounding frame and then snap them together. Depending on which card you have, you’ll end up with a Formula One car, a warship or a fighter-plane. According to the Coloribus advertising archive, the cards proved so popular that they had people “rushing to the shops” to ask for them.

The downside? Once the recipient has ripped your card apart to make a model, he no longer has your contact details. Oops.

Model Kits Shop: Tamiya Business Card [Coloribus via the Giz]

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OK, we were wrong. We said, prematurely, that the business card was dead, when in fact all it needed was a new case. The NES Controller Type Card Case, to be exact, a 2,900 ($31) anodized aluminum folder with a pair of compartments within one for your cards, and one for those you receive.

There are two designs, neither of which do more than the other. Each looks like an NES controller, but one has a fake mic and volume switch in addition to the fake D-Pad.

You know where were going here, though, right? The case should actually be a fully functioning controller, for an iPhone or a Nintendo DS, perhaps. And if youre going to put a USB plug on there, throw in some flash memory at the same time. Then it could be a little closer to justifying the price-tag.

Product page [GeekStuff4U via Akihabara News]
See Also:

• Augmented Reality Business Cards: WoW For Suits?
• LEGO Business Card
• How to Make a Business Card Vanish, Palm a Coin

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