AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO

A group of engineers and scientists in Australia have created a shirt that acts as an "air guitar."

Led by engineer Dr Richard Helmer a team of researchers at CSIRO Textiles and Fibre Technology in Geelong has created a 'wearable instrument shirt' (WIS) which enables users to play an 'air guitar' simply by moving one arm to pick chords and the other to strum the imaginary instrument’s strings.

"Our air guitar consists of a wearable sensor interface embedded in a conventional 'shirt' which uses custom software to map gestures with audio samples.

"It’s an easy-to-use, virtual instrument that allows real-time music making – even by players without significant musical or computing skills. It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original mp3."

What will they think of next? Seriously, I'm heading to Australia to witness the world's big inventive minds at work and to sample some of the ingenious concepts of the future. Before you know it we'll be driving cars with scrubby wheels to keep the highways clean and building houses that are constructed out of metal plates that you can change around and piece together with giant magnets. Hey, maybe I can get a job with these guys!

Is it dangerous to get wet if you're wearing the air guitar shirt?
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