Digital cowbell -- HOAX? HOAX.

The Rad Monkey VLC800 is a digital cowbell that simulates the sounds of 12 popular analog cowbells through a high-quality digital signal processor.

Update: A couple people have written in to claim that this is a hoax. Certainly the dealers page is suspiciously blank. (Thanks, Alex and others!)

Update 2: FZ sez, "It's indeed a hoax. It's hilarious, if you get the joke. The page with the detailed description of the modeled cowbells is a clever parody of the user manuals of Line6 products, a company that produces digital guitar amplifiers. They're downloadable at line6.com if you're curious, and double as pretty great primers of the history of electric guitar amplification."

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