Do you play air guitar?

Do you want to improve your air guitarist skills?

Australian scientists have just given you a hand. They have created a T-shirt that allows you to play real music! - without resorting to a real guitar.

How?
The T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up movements and relay them wirelessly to a computer which interprets them as guitar riffs.

"It's an easy-to-use, virtual instrument that allows real-time music-making - even by players without significant musical or computing skills," said the research team leader, Richard Helmer.
"It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original mp3."

Researchers specialising in computing, music and textile manufacture have been working together to make this T-shirt.

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

You can customise the software to make an air tambourine and a percussion instrument called an air guiro.

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