Blue Goji

The Creators of Guitar Hero Want to Make Your Treadmill Less Boring

Even if you deny your participation with the plastic instrument fad with Guitar Hero and Rock Band in the late 2000’s, everybody had a taste of how awesome it was to be a fake rockstar. The toy instruments sure didn’t make anyone into a musician but what if these same mechanics actually helped you run or bike more? That’s a much more feasible prospect to accomplish.

Guitar Hero co-creators Kai and Charles Huang have been quietly working on a series of game accessories that could be used on bikes, treadmills, and ellipticals in their new venture called Blue Goji.

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Quincy Jones’ Playground Sessions is a Rhythm Game that Actually Teaches you Piano

Playground Sessions will Make you a Piano Hero…and thank the gods that there won’t be any crappy plastic controllers necessary either.

Playground Sessions is a new piano education application created by Chris Vance and Quincy Jones to make learning piano more fun. The program utilizes a “play to learn” model that relies on today’s most popular music to get students interested in playing and subsequently learning as well.

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