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New Product Lets You Carry Hatsune Miku In Your Pocket
posted on by Eric Stimson
It might seem like Hatsune Miku is everywhere these days — onstage, in car commercials, in online card games. Well, soon her signature voice can come warbling out of your pocket, too.
Crypton Future Media, in cooperation with Yamaha, has developed a gadget, "Pocket Miku," that can do just this. Using a stylus and a carbon keyboard, you can hear Hatsune Miku's voice sing the syllables of the solfège ("do-re-mi fa-so-la," etc.). Five buttons will also play the five Japanese vowels, and a long "shift" button lets you select a famous Miku song preloaded onto the device. Additional buttons let you change volume, add vibrato, or adjust the octaves to add richness to Miku's performance.
Pocket Miku goes on sale April 3 as a special supplement to the magazine Otona-no Kagaku ("Science for Adults"). It will sell for 4,980 yen (or about $49, tax not included).
[Via Netlab; Image from Hatsune Miku News]
