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Australian scientists have created a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play real music - without resorting to a real guitar.The T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up movements and relay them wirelessly to a computer which interprets them as guitar riffs. One arm is interpreted as picking chords while the other strums. The "wearable instrument shirt" is adaptable to both right and left-handed would-be rock stars. "It's an easy-to-use, virtual instrument that allows real-time music-making - even by players without significant musical or computing skills," said the research team leader, Richard Helmer. "It allows you...

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The first academic study into the sweaty pursuit of air guitar playing is to use the work of French philosophers to explain why men and women do it differently. Doctoral research has begun under the supervision of Britain's first professor of pop music, who is also overseeing a PhD into the art of "moshing", the vigorous head-shaking dance popular among concert crowds.

Air Guitar Champions Strike a Chord Mon Aug 26, 9:21 AM ET By Gleb Bryanski OULU, Finland (Reuters) - Can't play the guitar? With a lot of nerve but little shame you too can be a rock star at the air guitar world championship. Toby Peneha, a Maori from New Zealand, had never been on a plane or traveled abroad. His life changed when his girlfriend put his name up for a national air guitar competition. "I went on stage and just made a complete fool of myself," Peneha, a 28-year-old meat factory worker, told Reuters. Within minutes he was...