Last week we saw the exciting and unique virtual piano that looked like a modern take on Nintendo’s Power Glove. This week we give you DrumGenius, a wearable musical instrument designed by Guanyun Wang, Ye Tao, Zurui Jiang, Lei Shi, and Yujie Hong. Essentially this is an accelerometer based set of cuffs that you wear to simulate playing the drums. As you move your hands it will evoke the beating of a drum and even has a visual feature that aims to make it quite promising.

While such innovations are really cool, I personally prefer the full-sized non-virtual equivalents to devices like this, but that’s jut me, and I suppose that there are many places were a full-sized physical instrument just isn’t practical. The way technology is heading I will most likely be telling my grand-kids about the ‘good ole’ days’ when instruments were large physical devices, games were played on things called TVs instead of in huge virtual reality environments, and humans controlled the fire department instead of robots with extinguisher grenades. Afterwards, they will shake their heads and walk away muttering about how crazy their old gramps is.

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For those of you out there who love playing the piano and want to hone your skills wherever you are, there are a lot of smartphone apps. But what you see above is a new Japanese Wrist-Mounted Finger Piano which will give you an experience far better than playing on your phone’s touchscreen.

As you can see in the above image, the portable musical instrument looks sort of like a weird glove for a future gaming console. The gadget easily slips onto your wrist and you have to insert your fingers into the respective “clips”. Then you simply start playing.

When you press a finger down on a hard surface, a note will sound on the gadget’s in-built speaker. Powered by 3 x LR44 batteries, the Finger Piano comes with one full octave of notes. And you will also get to play with three volume levels and three sound banks including piano, bells and cat (no, that’s not a typo).

Although it won’t be as satisfying as playing on the real thing, at least you won’t need four people to move it around and it will be better than tapping your bare fingers on the table.

Head here if you want to get the Japanese Wrist-Mounted Finger Piano which comes with a price tag of $39.99.

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