Harmonix's Dropmix is a weird but fun musical mashup card game

Harmonix — the studio behind Rock Band and the original Guitar Hero — has long

experimented with fusing technology, games, and music. Aside from getting millions of people to play with plastic instruments in their living rooms, the developer released games that made use of Sony’s EyeToy camera, Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor, and even Apple’s old click wheel iPod. It was one of the first developers to start making games for the Apple TV. Now Harmonix has partnered with Hasbro on perhaps its strangest creation yet: Dropmix, an experience that fuses a Bluetooth-enabled game board, NFC playing cards, and a mobile app to create a playful musical mash-up tool. It’s surprisingly fun — though for most people, it likely won’t have the lasting appeal to make a $99.99 entry price worth it. The core of Dropmix is the board, which is a long, bulky plastic device that serves as both a playing surface and a cradle for your phone or tablet. The game requires a free mobile app, available on both iOS and Android, which handles most of the heavy lifting for playing the game. To set up, you simply place your smart device in the cradle, and connect it to the board via Bluetooth; it’s a painless process that took me all of two seconds to complete. The cradle works well with a range of device sizes. I managed to play using both my phone and comically huge iPad Pro.                                                                        https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/1/16239954/harmonix-dropmix-music-card-game