It’s like the theremin of the 21st century: behold, the beamz Music Performance System:
Breaking the laser beams with your hands automatically generates pre-authored pulses, streams, riffs or loops of musical notes or sounds from a variety of instruments — all kinds of strings, keyboards, winds, percussion. Sophisticated high-fidelity sounds seem to pour off your fingertips like
magic!
Link – via GeekAlerts
Sham
Jean-Michel JARRE is doing that in concert with his “Laser Harp” for almost 20 years… 
Jones
I remember playing a laser harp years ago… must’ve been at least 1999 or further. But yeah, Jarre has been doing this since forever.
Rosi1
The Blue Man group used something like this when I went to see them in London.
You can buy a toy version of it from I Want One of Those.
http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/toys-games/cool-science/blue-man-group/ index.html
adriano518
saw one played and i have no idea how some one would teach themselves to play this remotely well but it would still be fun to have. well for a few days anyways
Matt
UPDATE: The beamz now sells for $499.95 as is available for purchase through the company Web site: http://www.thebeamz.com. You can download new songs from there as well.
jordie
Thanks, Megan, but come on… You’re still talking about a pretty worthless invention attached to a $500 price tag. I’m sorry, this Beamz is offensive to me, both as an American and a musician. Can you believe that someone is trying to market this thing for such a price when we’re in the middle of a recession (if not a full blown depression)? Secondly, maybe not everyone is meant to be a musician. Ever think of that? This doesn’t even make anyone a musician. Can you actually WRITE a song on it? I guess so, if the process of songwriting can be reduced to triggering some cheesy MIDI presets.
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