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Turn your smartphone into a playable wind instrument with this USB-C mouthpiece

A person presses buttons on a smartphone while blowing into the Zefiro mouthpiece attached to the device’s USB-C port.
The Zefiro is a tiny USB-C MIDI controller that can be played like a wind instrument. | Image: Kickstarter

An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used to play simulated instruments with even less skill than what was needed to play those plastic recorders in grade school.

The Zefiro is being made available through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign looking to raise just over $5,300 to fund production. According to the company, “We have been developing and manufacturing musical instruments for years; now we just need to collect pre-orders for our latest creation and kick off manufacturing!”

Those backing the campaign early can preorder a…

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