"Misa Digital's Kitara was basically the first digital musical instrument to make use of a touch-button strings/frets, along with an 8" multi-touch display. Players control the sound effects and parameters through with the display, as opposed to strumming strings like on a traditional guitar. This Linux-powered instrument uses an internal wavetable synthesizer with effects to generate sound. Since Linux is open-source, you are also able to reprogram the Kitara, modifying existing sounds, and even program new ones. In a nutshell, it's designed to produce the sounds of a synthesizer through the playingstyle of a guitar."

i can see the future with this, very much like a bill and teds future selves....

I stick to my Strat guitar and my old roland analog and new roland digital synthesizers for now. A synthesizer that's shaped like a guitar? interesting and I like electronic music. I have to say it sounds like shit to me and after watching a few videos of this hybrid "fretboard synth". Just  wonder how overall the synthesizer engine is and how may internal sounds they are and effects you can apply, in the videos sounded weak.

I can't help but think of this when I watch that video for some reason...