Greatest...Invention...Ever

[MrCinatit 30]

Seriously...I want one of these.

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 rifts, 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.quote>

[Constantina 5]

Well, who knows what will technology lead us to in the near future?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Well, I don't even play six-string acoustic guitar.  I'll wait for the Symphony Conductor Shirt.

[thundercrack83 0]

This may be the stupidest invention I've ever heard of in my entire life.

[Firebird 40]

This is the strangest invention that I have ever heard of. Good luck getting one Mr.Cinatit.

[crazychickensc12 84]

wow that sounds cool lol, but im gonna have to go with N_O_Body's upgrade!!

[hym 358]

That sounds like a great invention!  Now all they need to do is make one for drums and I'm set.

[Tarkus 6,933]

Very interesting idea.  I think I may wait until the air Hammond B3, air MiniMoog and air Mellotron come out though . . . (total prog rock nerd here, if you didn't already know . . .). 

I also agree with N_O_Body, though, that the air conductor thing might be good too.  Don't know how feasible that would be, but maybe I'd actually be able to get my orchestral compositions played (at all, let alone correctly).  It's a pretty bleak world out there for a lot of orchestral composers here in the states. (Unless, of course, your name is John Adams, John Corigliano, maybe a couple dozen or so others . . .)

-Tarkus

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

I think they had a similar invention using gloves in Finland a few months back, but t shirt is probably better!

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz I think they had a similar invention using gloves in Finland a few months back, but t shirt is probably better!quote>

 

A few years ago, I read about a company that developed a set of gloves that could interact with virtual displays, holograms, and the like.  When someone "touched" a part of the hologram, the gloves would change the the environment and the user would feel heat, cold, surface texture, and so on.  Automotive manufacturers are putting it to use in designing their cars; they can holographically display an automotive dashboard and a user can use the gloves to feel what the leather, vinyl, wood trim, and other components feel like.  It's pretty cool stuff.

[Voar Tok 4]

Look out world! The next Eric Clapton has just arrived!

[s.i.X 13]

This is a terrible invention. Being an air guitarist requires the na

[MrCinatit 30]

Originally posted by: s.i.X This is a terrible invention. Being an air guitarist requires the naïvety of the air guitarists skill. This will just make them realise how bad they are at it and they'll get depressed.quote>

 

Or, the world could see the birth of the next Nigel Tufnel or JB. 

I wonder what kind of sound it makes when you sneeze?

[Mikeaut1 261]

Wow, how amazing!!! I need to see a picture of this! I wonder how much the price is for one!

[your_adress_here 11]

I'll stick to playing my real guitar. But this still is a very cool shirt.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

And then, of course, there is the good old Theramin.  This instrument was played by waving your hands at it.  The music in a couple of SF movies were done that way.  I think one of them was The Day the Earth Stood Still.  (Played by Klaatu, with orchestration by Gort).

[Barbarossa 51]

I fear for the world when William Hung gets wind of this.

Barbarossa

[BurroDiablo 222]

Saw this on the news and I couldn't belive it! As soon as they drop into my price range i'm getting one, Its a whole new instrument for talentless eejits like me!

[Joesocwork 4]

Okay, maybe something original to get The Magistrate after all! She sometimes thinks that she is Tom Scholz, the lead guitarist for Boston. --Seriously!!