15 Feb 2006
We are delighted to hear that the long nights at Helsinki University of Technology aren't affecting the ability of what newspapers such as ourselves call 'boffins' to do useful work. That's why we send kudos to Aki Kavernos, who last week was all over the news demonstrating his computer system that interprets air guitar playing and makes it sound like a badly played real guitar. We're even happier that with the world's media watching, Aki chose to play Smoke on the Water. Badly.
It only remains to note that Oulu, an even more remote outpost of Finland that houses many technology companies (think Maidenhead if it were north of the Arctic Circle) holds the Oulun Musiikkivideofestivaalit every year, featuring the world Air Guitar Championships. Watch the winners at www.omvf.net/2005/index.php?lang=en.
'According to a traditional Finnish
saying, life is smiling like a herring in a pint of sour milk!' says the web site, somewhat untranslatably.
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