Enjoy DDR Without Obscuring Your Costly Parquet?
What says "slow news day" better than a prototype game accessory? Here we have Applied Sciences' Laser Dance Matrix: a grid with four laser diodes, the insides of a Logitech gamepad, and no moving parts. Well, presumably you'll move. Dance, actually. At least, I hope you'd dance. Playing Halo with a laser grid seems unnecessarily challenging and more than a little bit silly.
The benefit of the Laser Dance Matrix would be removing those hideous Twister-style floor pads from your sisal-matted French Indochina-themed living space, your delicate parquetry, or perhaps a restored Roman mosaic. Or maybe you just like your linoleum, what do I know? At any rate, assuming this baby doesn't amputate your feet, it sounds pretty sweet.
Or you could just dance.
Laser dance matrix lets you rock out right on the floor [Engadget]
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Posted to Miscellany on 7 May 2007
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If this thing actually turns out to work, I will snatch it up in a second.
...and what says "story by tiny dancer" better than a headline including the word "parquet"?
Also, while you could "just dance", it's gotta be a pretty rare day when you can dance at the club in 2-day-old sweats and bedhead and have someone say to you when you're finished, "A!"
Well, I guess you could in Canada.
"hideous twister-style floor pads" are for beginners. most people with real (non-casual) ddr/itg interests has, at least, a foam insert pad with raised arrows for tactile feedback.. if not a metal stage from redoctane or a cobalt flux.
the real benefits here would be less stamina wasted on registering steps, lightweight, somewhat more portable. it still looks pretty terrible, and i'd be afraid it would take my toes off if in one misstep. :[