{"id":33484,"date":"2011-04-03T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/is-that-a-drum-in-your-pants-or%e2%80%a6-no-that%e2%80%99s-a-drum-in-your-pants-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:43:14","slug":"is-that-a-drum-in-your-pants-or%e2%80%a6-no-that%e2%80%99s-a-drum-in-your-pants-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/is-that-a-drum-in-your-pants-or%e2%80%a6-no-that%e2%80%99s-a-drum-in-your-pants-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Is That a Drum in Your Pants, or\u2026 No, That\u2019s a Drum in Your Pants | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some song-lovers may say that music’s in their genes. One young British boffin goes a step further by putting music in his jeans: he wears the world’s first pants-borne, playable electronic drum kit, complete with eight different drum sounds. And just so those pants aren’t lonely, another group of engineers has figured out a way to print sensors onto plastic, possibly making way for commercialized yoga mat drums (did somebody order that?) and more drums made out of things that aren’t drums.<\/p>

The bloke inside the drummable jeans is Aseem Mishra, a 17-year-old British student who nabbed this year’s Young Engineer Of Great Britain award. His invention allows people to perform drum solos on their legs<\/a> (video) by tapping eight paper-thin sensors sewn into the back of the fabric. The prototype must be plugged into a loudspeaker-toting backpack to make noise; Mishra says future models won’t be tied down like that.<\/p>

Why would anyone create such a thing? As he told BBC News<\/a>, he’s always thought that lugging his drum kit around for his band’s gigs were a hassle. “I think at the time I might have been tapping on my legs,” he explains, “and I thought, ...<\/p>

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