November 25, 2006
Hi-Tech T-Shirt Amplifies Air Guitar Into the Real Thing
Richard Helmer and a team of researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, fashioned the "wearable instrument shirt" out of an ordinary T-shirt fitted with an array of sensors.
The built-in technologies measure the movements of the wearer, allowing them to "play" by moving one hand to mimic guitar chord patterns and using the other to pluck virtual strings. The shirt is hooked up to a computer that is able to read the signals and turn them into guitar sounds.
The CSIRO team say they plan to create variants of the T-shirt which can mimic other instruments.
~I want my air-guitar t-shirt also connected to an array of servos in the t-shirts given to selected female audience members. Rock On!
[photo not with press release]