{"id":807,"date":"2006-11-23T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/23\/air-guitard\/"},"modified":"2006-11-23T10:05:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T15:05:43","slug":"air-guitard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/23\/air-guitard\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Guitard"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no idea why people are still making news about air guitar, but since it’s my duty to report it, here we go.<\/p>\n

Apparently the last air guitar innovation I mentioned<\/a> just isn’t enough for air guitar maniacs. Nope, in fact someone else has developed an entirely new dorky way to pretend to play guitar.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a shirt with sensors in it that detect your talentless windmilling and convert the pathetic noodly flagellation into hugely rad power chords so you can totally shred to your hearts content.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, the technology only works if they imbed it into a shirt that has “I’m a huge dork” printed on the front.<\/p>\n

Here you go, the press release<\/a> about the most rockingest “textile-based interface” evar.\u00c2\u00a0 A clip:<\/p>\n

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“Led by engineer Dr Richard Helmer a team of researchers at CSIRO Textiles and Fibre Technology in Geelong has created a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwearable instrument shirt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (WIS) which enables users to play an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcair guitar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 simply by moving one arm to pick chords and the other to strum the imaginary instrument\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strings. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yep, that’s Dr Richard “The Hammer” Helmer dropping it down hard at the textile lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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