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Pavlov's Dancing Shoes

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These shoes would be for people who wanted to learn how to dance for special occasions like weddings but didn't want to go to all the trouble of actually taking lessons. When the music started a microphone in the heel would determine what kind of song was playing and the dance step that would best suit it. Then it would start sending vibrations inside each shoe so you'd know which way to move it. A pulse on the left would tell you to keep moving that foot to the left until the pulse stopped. A pulse on the right would tell you to move the foot to the right. A pulse on top would tell you to lift your foot, a pulse on the bottom to put it back down. The shoes would also keep track of how far apart they were so they didn't end up making a short man do a split during a serious dance. I know these wouldn't be very romantic but at least you'd look less dorky.
—longshot9999, Feb 17 2005

An endoskeleton with microcontroller-controlled accutator joints robot_20wolverine_20dance_20skeleton
[ato_de, Feb 17 2005]

a pair of dancing shoes programmed with all the latest moves Dancing_20Shoes
[ato_de, Feb 17 2005]

Platform shoes that contain technology Impractical_20Dance_20Practice_20Shoes
[ato_de, Feb 17 2005]

Electroconvulsive Dance Therapy Machine Spasmatic_20Dance_20Trainer
[ato_de, Feb 17 2005]

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       Dance, dance revoshoetion.
—skinflaps, Feb 17 2005
   

       I searched and found several things quite like this. [links]   

       well...   

       actually, only ONE thing quite like this and a couple of things SIMILAR to this and one thing NOTHING AT ALL like this that aims to accomplish the same thing. Still, it took me longer to annotate this than to find these things.
—ato_de, Feb 17 2005
   

       Reaction time?   

       I swear I've seen this in a cartoon or something before, I just can't remember which one, when, or where.
—tekym, Feb 17 2005
   

       Pavlov's Robot Wolverine? Ding!
—UnaBubba, Feb 17 2005
   

       Do The Dog....
—normzone, Feb 18 2005
   

       tekym - Since the shoes would know what dance they were supposed to be doing they could compensate for reaction time by giving the signals a second or two ahead of time. They'd know whether or not they were keeping up with the music too so they could dynamically adjust their cues.
—longshot9999, Feb 18 2005
   

       //microphone in the heel would determine what kind of song was playing and the dance step that would best suit it   

       This I think is magic technology. Even visualization software on a PC often can't figure out where the beats are, and that's getting fed directly from the sound card. If it were a microphone in your shoe, every time you put your foot down it would hear a "thunk" that it would take to be a beat in the music. Asking it to figure out what kind of music it's hearing is, to my knowledge, beyond a computer's brain.
—Etymon, Feb 18 2005
   

       Yup, I think all those little linkies kind of make this look halfbaked.
—blissmiss, Feb 18 2005
   

       For a good Pavlov effect, the shoes could deliver an electric shock if a wrong step was made.
—darkboy115, Feb 18 2005
   

       Professor Frink.
—yabba do yabba dabba, Feb 18 2005
   


 

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