T-shirt turns air guitar into music


	T-shirt turns air guitar into music

rmowery

11-13-2006 10:42 AM

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air guitar, tshirt, playing music in thin air

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11-13-2006 10:48 AM

adamc

Wow. I suddenly just got really homesick. What a cool invention.

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CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists announced Monday that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_fe_st/air_guitar"><P>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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_fe_st/air_guitar"><P>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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_fe_st/air_guitar"><P>"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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_fe_st/air_guitar"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/30455E15-E126-41EC-B300-A10D43A4DC2B" alt="A man performs during the regional finals of the US Air Guitar Champions in New York, March 2, 2006. Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air. REUTERS/Keith Bedford" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_fe_st/air_guitar"><DIV class="source"><A href="http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061113/ids_photos_ts/ra3518578833.jpg">Reuters Photo:</A>
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