OtamatOne

It’s a monophonic synthesiser shaped like a stick, you play it with one finger, it has a Pac-Man-style head at one end and, maybe unsurprisingly, it’s made in Japan. The Otamatone has been around for a while, but there’s currently a frisson of excitement surrounding a new version modelled on Kirby, a Nintendo character that’s essentially a shape-shifting blob that inhales things in order to acquire new skills.

What an extraordinary world we live in.