Now You Can Play The 'Air Guitar' For Real

Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they move their hands through the air.

The T-shirt, created by scientists from an organisation known as Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is being called a "wearable instrument shirt".

The shirt has censors in each elbow and sleeves to detect and interpret the air guitarist's arm movements -- one arm chooses chords and the other strums imaginary strings.

The gestures then connect wirelessly to guitar audio samples to generate the music.

"It's an easy to use, virtual instrument that allows real time music making, even by players without significant musical or computing skills", says a CSIRO engineer Richard Helmer.

"It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original mp3".

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