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.

Apparently the last air guitar innovation I mentioned 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.  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.  Interestingly, the technology only works if they imbed it into a shirt that has “I’m a huge dork” printed on the front.

Here you go, the press release about the most rockingest “textile-based interface” evar.  A clip:

“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. “

Yep, that’s Dr Richard “The Hammer” Helmer dropping it down hard at the textile lab.