Designer Erik De Nijs has created a pair of jeans for computer geeks.

Built into the knees are a pair of crotch rocking speakers, around the back you have the added convenience of a back pocket for your “mouse”…

Head over to Vous Pensez for more photos of the Keyboard Pants.

(Via CrunchGear, Nerdcore and Prylfeber)

The sound of people doing drum rolls on their knees all of a sudden got even more annoying. Tyler Freeman, aka odbol, is the creator of DrumPants – a pair of pants that enable the wearer to produce drum sounds by hitting various parts of the pants with his hands.

In order to make a pair of DrumPants, you need:

• A MIDI Trigger Converter, such as the Roland TMC-6, to convert audio to MIDI
• A General MIDI instrument and amplifier and speakers (I gutted my cheap Yamaha PSR-200 keyboard).
• Piezo transducers as contact mic triggers, wired to 1/4 plugs for the Roland.
• Pants (I used some HUGE Dickies shorts to facilitate easy-access drumming.)

Here are two more demonstration videos of the DrumPants:

Tyler Freeman demos his interactive DrumPants at Maker Faire 2007.

A performance with the DrumPants combined with a LoopStation, for the Two Heads Are Better Than One competition. All of this was played live, showing how the DrumPants can be used to make a beat, but also used for melodic elements to create a complete piece of music.

More information about the DrumPants on odbol’s webiste.

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