A New Wearable Sensor That Could Reinvent Dance ... And Music

A German startup recently launched a range of wearable sensors that track movement and use an app that translates those movements into sound. Rather than creating a dance inspired by music, this technology could enable dancers to literally choreograph the music to fit their movements.

Reading about this new technology, it got me wondering how much inventors of technology like this really understand what worlds they may be disrupting. What use case do they have in mind when they build something like this? Is it intended as a way for the hearing impaired to experience music? Or as a tool to help choreographers reinvent their art? Or perhaps they just did it for fun. That’s the thing about innovation ... you can’t always predict why it works or who will love it and use it once it does.