Ever tried playing air guitar? Even though playing air guitar consists mainly of exaggerated strumming and picking motions, Jada Toys and Nitrous Roxide have introduced a device that will make playing the air guitar more realistic and challenging.

Called the “Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker” device, the player will wear a special belt buckle and strum a pick over the buckle to compose up to 10 different songs, such as Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” A video of the Roxide playing the device can be seen here. The Air Guitar Rocker also comes with a mini-amplifier, which the player would wear on his hip.

Previously, other developments have been made attempting to make playing air guitar more realistic. Helsinki University of Technology students developed a system similar to the Air Guitar Rocker device in 2005, which interprets hand movements into electrical guitar sounds. As well, Australian researchers in 2006 created a sensitive T-shirt that tracks the movement of the wearer and creates guitar sounds.

The Air Guitar Rocker is planned to be released this March for $29.95 and looks like a very interesting way to play air guitar. If this stuff catches on, then anyone could play their own kind of electric guitar music anywhere.