Christmas Gift alarm! - Real Air guitar :)

[MrBishop]

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.

Do they make them in large?

 

[Inkara1]

Now, do they make the riffs the person is actually playing? Or do they make real riffs with recognizable notes, rhythms and melodies?

 

[TexasRaceLady]

Does it make a non-player into a player?

 

[Luis G]

I wonder what kind of music it would play while masturbating.

 

[Inkara1]

I wonder what kind of music it would play while masturbating.

Maybe you should be the one in journalism and not me. You're asking the important questions.

 

[Gonz]

I wonder what kind of music it would play while masturbating.

I doubt its Can't Touch This

 

[highwayman]

I wonder what kind of music it would play while masturbating.

Or two Italians making dinner...

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

I wonder what kind of music it would play while masturbating.

The Stroke by Billy Squier no doubt.

 

[tonksy]

I was thinking Turning Japanese.

 

[MrBishop]

"I like big butts"

 

[highwayman]

"I like big butts"

Big enough for ya?

 

[Gonz]

That is just plain wrong & we may have to ask you to remove it...in the interest of preserving eyesight.

 

[MrBishop]

That is just plain wrong & we may have to ask you to remove it...in the interest of preserving eyesight.

Yeah...how can you tell if they're wearing thongs or not?? They may very well be going against the AUP and we'd never know it

 

[Gonz]

 

[MrBishop]

umh...thanks.
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