November 14th, 2006
Australian scientists have created a t-shirt which allows one to play air guitar but make real music.
The T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up movements and relay them wirelessly to a computer which interprets them as guitar riffs.
One arm is interpreted as picking chords while the other strums.
The “wearable instrument shirt” is adaptable to both right and left-handed would-be rock stars.
“It’s an easy-to-use, virtual instrument that allows real-time music-making – even by players without significant musical or computing skills,” said the research team leader, Richard Helmer.
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I know somewhere you can get wall size posters of a stack of amps and a rockin’ crowd if you want to complete the scene.
Where is that?
I’m more of an air drummer myself. If they can make a t-shirt that would simulate Neil Peart’s drumkit, well, I’m there!