Air guitar T-shirt: cotton-picking?
Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air.
澳大利亚科学家们近日发明了一种新颖而神奇的T恤衫，对于那些热衷于空气吉他演奏的人来说，只要穿上它便可以在没有吉他的情况下，仅凭“手舞足蹈”就能够弹奏出逼真悦耳的音乐。
The T-shirt, created by scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), is called a "wearable instrument shirt."
这种T恤的发明者是澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究协会（CSIRO）的科学家，他们将其命名为“可穿着的乐器衬衫”。
The shirt has sensors in each elbow and sleeves to detect and interpret the air guitarist‘s arm movements -- one arm chooses chords and the other strums imaginary strings.
科学家们在该T恤的每个肘部和袖子内均放置了一定数量的传感器，以及时捕捉到吉他演奏者双臂的动作并对其进行分析——其中一支胳膊负责选择想要演奏的和弦，另外一支则会亲自去拨动那些想象中的琴弦。
The gestures are then connected wirelessly to guitar audio samples to generate the music.
这些动作会被以无线电通讯的方式传送到吉他音频采集器中，并最终合成出人们所听到的音乐。
"It‘s an easy to use, virtual instrument that allows real time music making, even by players without significant musical or computing skills," said CSIRO engineer Richard Helmer.
“这其实就是一种简便易用的虚拟乐器，它使得人们可以进行实时的音乐创作，即使是那些不具备高超的音乐及电脑技巧的人也能够做到这一点。”
"It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original mp3," Helmer said in a statement on Monday.
CSIRO的工程师理查德·海尔莫说，“它可以令你随心所欲地蹦来跳去，而最后发出的声音听上去与mp3十分接近”。
Researchers specializing in computing, musical composition and textile manufacture combined their skills to create the musical T-shirt.
"The technology, which is adaptable to almost any kind of apparel, takes clothing beyond its traditional role of protection and fashion into the realms of entertainment," said Helmer.
海尔莫说，这种音乐T恤实际上是那些专门从事计算机、作曲及纺织品制造等方面研究的学者们通力合作的产物，“这项技术几乎可以应用在各种服装上，它使得服装超越了保护人体及引领时尚的传统功能，成功杀入到了娱乐王国之中”。
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