Dance

The Mictic body instrument is a pair of motion-sensing wristbands that connect to your phone via Bluetooth and then create music to match your movements, giving you the chance to play weird air-instruments, or generate a custom soundtrack for your dance moves.

Boston Dynamics is having a busy week, hot on the heels of its video showing Atlas mastering parkour, and the four-legged Spot wandering construction sites, it has released another video. This one unveils a lighter side to its robots, with Spot dropping some impressive dance moves to Uptown Funk.

​A new Guinness World Record was recently set in China when 1,069 simultaneously completed a choreographed dance routine. This was the third time in twelve months the world record for “most robots dancing simultaneously” has been broken.

Point Motion is a new motion sensing system that lets you create music through the movement of your body. Initially available as a package containing both the software and a wireless camera, it will also work with existing webcams.

Members of the Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab at McGill University have collaborated with a choreographer, a composer, dancers and musicians to create three groups of sensor-packed, internally-lit digital music controllers that attach to a dancer's costume.

Robotics developer Falkor Systems has developed a dance piece in which a human dancer performs with an autonomous AR Drone quadcopter.

Tosy transforming speaker becomes a robot that dances along with your music.

TOSY is launching two new toy robots, one of which dances to the beat of user-supplied music, and one of which can draw sketches.

The Nissan Juke Box is a specially designed Juke with a massive integrated sound system.

Heineken crowdsourced a design for a futuristic nightclub that popped up at Milan Design Week.

iDJ Live is a portable one-piece DJ rig, that incorporates the user's iDevice for live music mixing and playback.

Dressed in an outfit featuring LED lights, 17 individual lasers, and ballerina point shoes, dancer Milena would be right at home on the set of Blade Runner.