Air Guitar T-Shirt: Rock On!! November 13, 2006
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Air guitarists of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your self-respect.
My name is Martin and I am an air guitarist. There, I admit it. I feel better. But I am not alone because inside every man – and woman, to a lesser extent – is a guitar axe monster trying to get out. All we need is to be alone. Or drunk.
Aussie scientist Dr Richard Helmer has taken things a step further with the Air guitar T-Shirt, which actually translates certain air-moves into real guitar.
Officially called the ‘wearable instrument shirt’ it’s been invented by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, or CSIRO, as a way of getting non-traditional data into a computer. Air guitar certainly qualifies here then.
The t-shirt is made of special textiles and has sensors in different spots. Bending one arm decides the chord while the other does the strumming. Watch two cool short videos of it in action, here and here.
Apparently there’s a version for air tambourine but I can’t really see that taking off too fast, can you?-Martin Lynch
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