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Cool Acoustics started as a PhD project in industrial design by Owain Pedgley in 1999. It is now a guitar innovation project, hosted by Loughborough University in the UK.
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NEO PRODUCTS
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Designer Rich Roland founded NEO Products in 1989. In the early 90s NEO started research and development in the use of plastics in stringed instruments. Since then, NEO has developed a number of unusual plastic guitars and violins. NEO moved to Wildwood, New Jersey in 2000. Rich Roland is an expert in the use of neon, and has used neon lighting in some of his instruments.