Dance

Might it be possible that someday, an official might get you to dance around in order to confirm that you're really you? Perhaps not, but nonetheless, a study has determined that people's identities can be matched to their unique style of dancing.

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.