Bad news: T-shirt makes your air guitar real guitar
In the annual rankings of "inventions most likely to end civilization," there's going to be a new one in the standings this year, squeezing in right between nuclear weapons and reality television: the Wearable Instrument Shirt. Developed by the mad scientists over at the CSIRO's Textile and Fibre Technology in Geelong Australia, the t-shirt has textile motion sensors integrated into the shirt that track elbow movements. The upshot of this is that the shirt translates your legendary air guitar stylings into music (like that Project: Air Guitar we spotted a while back). The downside of this is that the music is epically crappy, and we were just kidding about "legendary stylings" anyways: you suck. So, with that in mind, please go ahead and check out the video of these nerds rocking out -- just don't come complaining to us of "eye bleeding" or "crushing depression" when you're done.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mrfreezie @ Nov 13th 2006 1:40PM
Great, so now we're going to have a bunch of Van Halen wannabes walking around playing their "killer air guitar."
Conan the Barb-AIR-ian @ Nov 13th 2006 1:44PM
I don't know how Bjrn Troque would feel about this, but I think it is could be pretty cool!
Rohit Kapur @ Nov 13th 2006 2:08PM
Air guitars for airheads. :-)
And yeah, I was one of the "everyone" who sent this in.
Matt B @ Nov 13th 2006 2:16PM
If you play "real" guitar, air guitar is very easy to pick up. It also makes it easier to not have to carry around all that equipment. If you don't know how to play "real" guitar, then your air guitar would sound crappy too.
Trent @ Nov 13th 2006 2:27PM
Learning the "real" guitar just wasn't that hard.
lankysob @ Nov 13th 2006 2:45PM
This needs to be paired with modified NES Power Gloves that detect your finger movements so you can do more than strum like an idiot.
peterjohndean1 @ Nov 13th 2006 3:31PM
Swonderfull, smarvellous....
Zorque @ Nov 13th 2006 3:31PM
I wonder if it just plays that same set of chords over and over, or if somehow it can predict them based upon the positioning of the other hand.
whiskey @ Nov 13th 2006 4:40PM
Bill and Ted would consider this "Excellent"...
Jeff Foster @ Nov 13th 2006 5:24PM
speaking of bleeding eyes...
when will you engadget jerks start putting a WARNING when you link to videos that are ASX and WMV and all those shit formats? ...like you do for PDFs... i think you owe us that.
Richard @ Nov 14th 2006 8:25PM
hello Cleveland, i invented this shirt and along with a team of guys including a variety of exchange students have prepared this comedy (?) for your pleasure. i actually really do play music... you need to so as to design this thing...it does more than 'air guitar' and is less fiddly than typical midi devices.
i take it 'bad news' is a reference to the comic strips episode on the band 'bad news' and that in fact you do know what is cool and what rock n roll means...
i'm a dad and needed to get a dad haircut, yes looks very much like lego hair... incidentally the wedding ring makes a nice slide on the guitar so long as you keep it shiny
..you can still 'burn' the shirt
cheers,
preserved moose
R @ Jan 3rd 2007 10:03AM
"Hey, look at my wedding ring! Despite being a TOOL, someone actually married me!"
Poor woman (I'm assuming).
Tuesday morning . . . "So, Barbara . . . I saw your husband's photo on Engadget yesterday with that lame guitar shirt . . . you must be proud."