I recently purchased a new piece of guitar equipment : a Looping Pedal. It's a BOSS RC-2 Loop Station pedal.
It's a digital storage unit (and much more!) that will capture guitar playing and then allow the guitarist to create more parts on top of it. You get a layered effect, as if there were more than one of you playing.
You can read more about it at the following page :
http://bobguitarguy.blogspot.com/