Weekend Fun: La Escopetarra – Gun Guitar

A Guitar Only Ted Nugent Could Love Created by Cesar Lopez and Luis Alberto Paredes, these Gun Guitars have been dubbed La Escopetarra. Lopez got the inspiration for the invention while standing outside a bombed out Bogotá club and noticing the similarities between his guitar and a soldier’s rifle who was standing guard. After partnering up with musical instrument craftsman, Luis Alberto Paredes, Lopez has been producing the...

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Weekend Fun: Wearable Instrument Shirt

Aussie Scientists have announced that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music. The T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up the wearer’s arm motions and relay them wirelessly to a computer which interprets them as guitar riffs, said Richard Helmer, an engineer who leads the research team from the government’s Australian Commonwealth Scientific and...

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