For the air guitarist

[Phlegm]

A t-shirt that turn air guitaring into music:

From Associated Press:

CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists announced Monday that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music.

The T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up the wearer's arm motions and relay them wirelessly to a computer which interprets them as guitar riffs, said Richard Helmer, an engineer who leads the research team from the government's Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

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," Helmer said in a statement.

"It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original MP3," he added, referring to the digital audio file format.

The shift is a collaboration between CSIRO researchers in computing, chemistry, electronics, music composition and textile manufacture.

Helmer said sensors could be used in the future to reproduce a person in the virtual world so they could get feedback on their actions and improve their sporting techniques.

[araby]

they should do this for air-drummers also hehe

[Narrock]

I'm pretty guitarded so I play air guitar every now and then.

[Dylan]

And people say the space program is a waste of money

[Lueyen]

And people say the space program is a waste of money

Look past the current application of this technology and what could be done with it in the future.

[Dylan]

Video game controllers fit right inside your t-shirt?

[kinghooter00]

Hey thats pretty cool, but i bet its just premade riffs that sound corny as hell. I can't imagine being able to play any chord you want with that shirt. And what if you get it wet and it fatally electricutes you... Damn that would be so not cool I love air guitar, lets not complicate it. It would lose the whole bevis and butthead atmosphere that it has.

[Dylan]

I can see it now... entire bands all with shirts that play the music for them

[Lueyen]

Video game controllers fit right inside your t-shirt?

Sure why not, but if this can detect and interpret speed, distance and force of movement in the detail it takes to play a guitar, all with a size and weight ceiling that allows it to be put on or in clothing, the applicability could be huge in a lot of other areas beyond entertainment.

[Juls]

wat is an air guitar?

[araby]

it's when you look like you're playing the guitar but you're really not because there isn't one, just air.