Sometimes, concept products seem to be more interesting than they are practical, but this doesn't look to be the case with Compose. This is a tablet-style device that lets you create scores on a digital surface in a couple of different ways.
The most innovative of these methods involves you singing into the supplied pen, which also doubles up as a microphone. When this mic is docked in the Compose tablet, your melodies are automatically transcribed, and can be played back using the built-in orchestral sounds.
Alternatively, you can just use the pen to write scores in standard fashion.
At the moment, this is all we know about Compose, which was apparently designed by Ouyang Xi, He Binbin, Zeng Li and Li Bo. We'd love to find out more, though, and to discover if there's a possibility that the product might actually go on sale at some point.
(via Synthtopia)
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