Banan-a-Synth is a pocket synthesizer shaped like a banana, and it ships with clip leads that let you wire up actual bananas — or any conductive object — as capacitive keys. That makes it a music toy and a physics demonstration at the same time. It came out of a Kickstarter that closed fully funded, and the brand now sells it directly.
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