dancing shirt

[silky]

it might be possible to build a shirt that "dances" somehow.

i.e. it should have some weight or something that it shifts around, and if you move with it, then you are dancing. as a start we could just do it with lights; it would sync up to the music that it can hear.

then as a next step, it could have a motor or something that it moves. or maybe just the lights would be fun enough.

what i'd like is to "learn" dance moves from the shirt. i.e. it finds a nice groove to wiggle to.

also, if there is more than one such shirt, it should behave differently to other shirts of the same type. it wouldn't be fun if everyone in a nightclub had them and they were all doing the same thing. (everyone should be on-beat, i guess, but maybe the shirts have different moves that they prefer, which they learn from the people wearing them somehow. i.e. the shirt could infer stuff about you, and then construct appropriate dance moves.)

i guess if it were visual, it could also convey the dance moves to those around you. with suitable wavey symbols or whatnot.

[silky]

this might be easier with shoes.

it could indicate the beats on which you should be moving your feet (but not where you should be moving them to, say.)

[mobeets]

awesome idea! then dance clubs could become more like bowling alleys, in that you could rent shoes to dance, or something?

maybe you let the user add impulses, which will let the dances not be templated/cookie-cutter, and the shoes make you end the moves on beat. so if you try to move your arm, it will make sure your arm stops on beat, or something. sounds jerky and weird but maybe fun. the name of the shoes should in some way reference "doing the robot"

[silky]

"beat boots".

[silky]

geez what an amazing idea.

[mobeets]

hahaha this post makes it seem like you got into dancing robots by first imagining a dancing shirt