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Body-mapping garments to help athletes improve their skills
03 Apr '08
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Interactive garments of this kind first captured the world's imagination when Dr Helmer, demonstrated his 'Air Guitar' shirt technology - a long-sleeved shirt which, depending on the movements of its wearer, produces a range of guitar chord sounds from a remote computer.
Dr Helmer says interactive textile devices have significant scope for applications involving entertainment, education, sport, military, rehabilitation and medicine.
"These devices can often be embedded in conventional garments like the 'Air Guitar' Wearable Instrument Shirt and typically have the sensor signals bussed via very fine highly conductive fibres in the body of the garment to a common wireless connection which transfers the data to a digital infrastructure capable of intelligent interpretation," he says.
Dr Helmer says interactive textile devices have significant scope for applications involving entertainment, education, sport, military, rehabilitation and medicine.
"These devices can often be embedded in conventional garments like the 'Air Guitar' Wearable Instrument Shirt and typically have the sensor signals bussed via very fine highly conductive fibres in the body of the garment to a common wireless connection which transfers the data to a digital infrastructure capable of intelligent interpretation," he says.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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