Australia’s nation science body, the CSIRO, has developed a high-tech textile-based T-shirt that gives real life to air guitar.Check out the video: How the shirt works SMH.com.au reports: 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.”The market for budding air guitarists is huge, no doubt, but Dr. helmer told the SMH it was more about letting the cat out of the bag on the CSIRO’s work on high-tech textiles.People wearing shirts with sensors could operate computers and play computer games without ever having to touck a mouse or a touch pad. Intelligent clothes could create 3D replicas of physiotherapy patients to help teach them to walk and bend again after injuries. Patients could even be examined by specialists in another city or country. And electronic clothes could even be used to teach people to play golf or tennis. Technology Industry