Air guitar really rocks

The World Air Guitar Championships could be in turmoil this year with news that Australian scientists have finally created an air guitar that metal fans may be willing to wear. For rather than using yellow mitts, this solution employs that icon of rock: the t-shirt.Possibly the best thing to be invented by our Antipodean friends since Tooheys New, the ‘wearable instrument shirt’ works using sensored-up textiles which detect the wild thrashings of the wearer’s two flailing arms. Bending one arm gives the chord while the other strums majestically.Unlike its stringed cousin, air guitar is easy to transport by simply, er, wearing it, and can even be strummed while playing sports (tennis and squash especially). Not sure when we’ll see this one at the Royal Academy, or even the Brixton Academy, but you can see two short films of it in action on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website.

Wearable Instrument Shirt’ Related links: Sydney Morning Heraldk Related stories:The world’s best air guitar

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home