You’ve seen theThis is an object of seeming conflicting dualities. The You Rock Guitar is a game controller yet not a game controller. It’s a guitar with strings yet not a string guitar. It’s not as much a musical instrument as an instrument for making music.

This device includes a section of strings that you strum yet the strings are about 6 inches long, never need tuning and are not tied t the neck of the guitar. Instead, you press pressure-sensitive frets all along the neck, activating each note much as you would with a real string guitar. You then strum the string to play the note(s)or chord you are fingering.

Somewhere, Power Gig’s little heart is crumbling. USA Today reports that Rock Band 3 will offer a real guitar, in addition to the keyboard that was strongly hinted at several weeks ago.

Yeah, you read that headline right. A company is finally releasing a string-based, USB guitar game controller.

Named the You Rock Guitar, this is an honest-to-goodness string guitar (OK, a digital string guitar) that plugs into your computer. For $20 more you can get a GameFlex cartridge that adapts the guitar to be used as a controller for consoles games including Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

The You Rock Guitar will be available in February 2010 for $179.95 but will be on display during CES 2010 at Booth 5627 Gaming Showcase, LVCC, North Hall Las Vegas Hilton East Tower Hospitality Suite H2549

The company’s press release also lists the guitar-controller features as (video follows):