Watch out Guitar Hero, the next wave of virtual rocking out has just been released in Australia: the wearable instrument shirt.

“Scientists at the CSIRO’s Textile and Fibre Technology division in Geelong have woven electronic sensors into a T-shirt so that it can be played liked a real guitar. Movements by the wearer’s arms are mapped and beamed by radio to a computer, which interprets them and turns them into musical notes The wearer only has to act out playing the instrument to make sounds. ‘The left arm chooses a note and the right arm plays it,’ said Richard Helmer, a CSIRO chemical engineer who led the project. The arrangement can be reversed for left-handed musicians.”

“You can play with yours hands above your head,” said Dr Helmer. “You can turn around and jump. Whatever you like.”

Now all your air band practices finally have a purpose

Courtesy of t-shirt alert