Since the first Guitar Hero, real guitarists everywhere have been sour about how Red Octane and Harmonix have boiled over 132 notes over six strings into five color coded buttons. Perhaps its the Dave Matthews effect. We realize that Dave Matthews is a talented musician, we just can't stand a lot his fans. Guitarists feel the same way about people who have never even touched an actual guitar, but they are expert Guitar Heroes.

SoundTech has made a device that lets guitarists put their money where there mouths are. And though guitarists have little money to put in their mouths [as well as the fact that you'd probably catch some unfathomable illness if you actually did put money in your mouth], the Ediface lets guitarists use their actual guitars as Guitar Hero controllers.

The Ediface serves a much broader purpose than video game periphery though. Ediface works as a pickup, detecting the notes being played and replacing the real sound with MIDI, giving your guitar a synthesizer-like flexibility.

For Guitar Hero / Rock Band support, it's not a complete solution. You can only really program five different notes to correspond to the buttons. So, while you'll still fail the song if you try playing the actual fretting, at least you have a real guitar.