Is the only instrument you are able to play the air guitar? Have you been frustrated because pantomiming out a song pretending to play a guitar just not artistically satisfying? Well, relief is at hand! Australian researchers have invented the air guitar T-shirt that you can actually play. Er, wear. Er, both at once!
The T-shirt, created by scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), is called a "wearable instrument shirt."
The shirt has sensors in each elbow and sleeves to detect and interpret the air guitarist's arm movements — one arm chooses chords and the other strums imaginary strings.
The gestures are then connected wirelessly to guitar audio samples to generate the music.
"It's an easy to use, virtual instrument that allows real time music making, even by players without significant musical or computing skills," said CSIRO engineer Richard Helmer.
Just like rap music! No actual musical ability needed! Here's a video of the shirt actually being played. Here's the actual CSIRO press release. At last, you can be a jukebox hero. No word on when it will hit the market or what it will cost, however.
