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If you’re anything like me (and my condolences if you are), you spent countless hours in the ’80s practicing your skills imitating the chops of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and various other guitar gods using implements ranging from fire pokers, brooms, hockey sticks and, of course, your bare hands. Ah yes, the lost art of air guitar – few things can take me back to my misspent youth as appropriately as banging my head and playing an imaginary instrument.

Now, thanks to the wonders of technology, you can do more than just pretend. The Virtual Air Guitar, a project developed at the Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory and the Acoustics Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology, allows you to essentially play guitar without an instrument or – most importantly – any musical skill.

You just put on a pair of orange gloves and wail away on your fake axe, while a webcam films you and interprets the music you’re playing through the physical sound model software. The result is actual musical output “played” by you. Had this existed back in the day, I might never have left home. Check it out at airguitar.tml.hut.fi.