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An experimental dance installation at the Arts Centre Melbourne this month is using speakers from Australian sound pioneer VAF Research to create a personal soundscape for each person who steps on the dancefloor.

With a dozen compact, powerful speakers provided by VAF, the free interactive dancefloor in the Arts Centre Melbourne foyer invites visitors to discover a unique dance experience as their movements trigger music and lights to create a spectacular audio-visual show.

Earlier this year, Arts Centre Melbourne commissioned Adelaide-based Eat More Code http://www.eatmorecode.com, along with artists Sasha Grbich, Ian Moorhead, Chris Petridis and Ingrid Voorendt, to create a work for the centre’s foyer during the Australian Ballet’s season of Sleeping Beauty.

This collaboration has produced a 21st century dancefloor that generates a personalised sound and light show for whoever is dancing, whether it’s a prima ballerina or someone with two left feet.

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UltraServe General Manager Adam ChicktongUltraServe today unveils a new version of its SmartStack Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) tailored for medium-sized organisations, which it expects to turbocharge export sales, especially in Asia.

During the past year, Australian managed cloud services provider UltraServe has seen exports go from a standing start to 35 per cent of sales due to demand for SmartStack, which provides hybris commerce services for enterprise customers in Australia and New Zealand as well as multinationals in the US, Europe, Brazil and India.

UltraServe General Manager Adam Chicktong said SmartStack for midmarket meant the company no longer had to walk away from smaller sales. “This more modular version will support websites with 250,000 visitors a month whereas our enterprise version started at 2.5 million a month,” he said.

“As a result, we’ve more than halved the monthly cost for midmarket companies wanting to deploy hybris, which appeals to many prospects we’re talking to in Asia, not to mention Australia.”

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From left, Matt Williams MP, John Lynch, Simon Hackett, Treasurer Scott Morrison and David HillsToday’s dedication of a new ‘flying intensive care unit’ by the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) marks the start of a five-year wave of investment by the RFDS in the communities of South and Central Australia.

The $7 million aircraft, Foxtrot–X-ray–Juliet (VH-FXJ), is the first of five new medically-equipped Pilatus PC-12 aircraft to replace five ageing aircraft. In addition, the RFDS will take delivery of SA’s first permanently configured aeromedical jet in three years’ time.

VH-FXJ features state-of-the art avionics and emergency services communications technology, and will replace an aeromedical aircraft which has served the SA community for the past 13 years and transferred more than 10,000 patients.

“Like its predecessor – and the other aeromedical aircraft in our fleet – VH-FXJ will assist two South Australians every day for the next decade, and I can’t think of a better return on investment,” David Hills Chairman of RFDS Central Operations, said at the official dedication ceremony of the VH-FXJ.

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Redflow executive chairman Simon Hackett with a Large Scale Battery (LSB) unitAustralian company Redflow is charged up to meet growing demand for robust long-life batteries that enable both homes and businesses to store electricity generated by their solar panels.

A recent report by the Climate Council states that Australia is predicted to become one of the world’s largest markets for battery storage due to its high cost of electricity, the large number of households with solar panels and Australia’s excellent solar resources. The research by Morgan Stanley says that half of surveyed households were interested in solar systems with battery storage on the basis of $10,000 battery systems with a payback of 10 years, creating a market potentially worth $24 billion.

This means Australia is becoming a battery battleground with global giants such as Tesla and Enphase targeting it as an early market for their respective batteries.

Redflow, an Australian Stock Exchange-listed company (ASX:RFX) which has commercialised its innovative flow battery for use by enterprise, business and residential customers, welcomed this global focus on Australia as the sign of a market that is taking off.

Redflow Chairman Simon Hackett said Tesla’s entry into the market in mid 2015 had made the energy storage market “sexy”. “I believe that, in future years, 2015 will be seen as the year that the renewable-energy storage sector hit its inflection point,” he said.

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