Google Guitar Honors The Late Les Paul
Posted on Jun 09, 2011 @ 04:20AM
by Radar Staff
You gotta check out Google today!
In honor of what would have been Les Paul's 96th birthday Wednesday, the web giant morphed their logo into a guitar -- and it plays!
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Even better, you can record your riffs with a small feature at the bottom.
And for all you tech geeks out there, the web innovators even gave the recipe for the guitar in a blog: "If you’re curious, the doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas (used in modern browsers to draw the guitar strings), CSS, Flash (for sound) and tools like the Google Font API, goo.gl and App Engine."
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Paul, a legend of associated with instrument’s ascension to a primary tool of rock n’ roll, died in August 2009.
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