Bad news: T-shirt makes your air guitar real guitar
By Paul Miller 
posted Nov 13th 2006 1:25PM
posted Nov 13th 2006 1:25PM
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]
Read - Hi tech T-shirt really rocks
Read - Official (and deadly) video evidence
Great, so now we're going to have a bunch of Van Halen wannabes walking around playing their "killer air guitar."
I don't know how Björn Türoque would feel about this, but I think it is could be pretty cool!
Air guitars for airheads. :-)
And yeah, I was one of the "everyone" who sent this in.
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.
Learning the "real" guitar just wasn't that hard.
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.
Swonderfull, smarvellous....
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.
Bill and Ted would consider this "Excellent"...
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.
"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."
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