Interactive Pong May be Most Fun You Can Have With a Whiteboard

Pong exerts a vicious grip on the minds of designers—it pops up in hundreds of reincarnations. But this one is sweet: a live "drawing on whiteboard" version, mixing electronics with the joy of drawing on, wiping off and repositioning your playing bat. Check it out, thrill to the high-speed action and grin at the ultimate use of a whiteboard: so much better than the usual business drivel that gets drawn on them. There's no more info apart from it's a live demo of a "physics based engine responding to it’s real life surroundings," so we're imagining it's powered by frantic behind-the scenes action by Dibert and Dogbert. [Electronicmiracles]

Audio Ping Pong is a Pain in the Neck...Literally

The arduino platform has been the basis for a lot of bizarre gadgetry over the years, and the audio ping pong project by Mike McCracken certainly stands up to the best of them. The game is essentially the classic Pong with one major alteration—instead of using your hands and eyes, the game is controlled with audio cues and head movements. More »

Pong Helmet Designed for Idiots, People Who Like Pong

If you are retarded and need to wear a helmet around to keep that noggin of yours safe, you might as well make it entertaining for others around you. I guess. I'm not really sure what other uses there are for this except perhaps as a way for construction workers to pass time on their lunch breaks. In any case, this is a hard hat with an LED display on the front that plays Pong and displays messages for some reason. Of course! [Instructables]

Watch Concepts Let You Play Pong and Tetris In Style

Lysandre Follet's watch concepts assume the identity of a pair of Nixon timepieces, throwing pong or tetris into the inner workings while avoiding excessive nerddom. The watches balance throwback games with simple, clean designs that don't look to irony for their appeal (like the designer retro-reissue of the Casio Databank). If this were ever real, I'd seriously consider buying it. [Yanko Design] More »

Park To Play Lets You Use Your Car as a Gaming Joystick

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Bally Pong Makes Gambling Even More Addictive

Atari's Pong is stealing our quarters once again, recently approved for use in a slot machine made by Bally: "Bally Pong." A cabinet decorated with chrome fixtures and retro fonts will be a pretty standard 5-line slot, though featuring two knobs for the 1-in-70 occurrence of a 45-second Pong minigame. And while earnings at this point are "skill based," will expert Pongers see a real payout advantage? More »

Pong, Anytime, Anywhere

As part of the ECE 476 Microcontroller Design course at Cornell University, two students have taken the game of Pong and added a new twist. This version of Pong can be played on any flat surface using two laser-sensing paddles and a laser projector that projects the Pong ball. The entire project only set the duo back $48. Hit the link below to get all of the nitty-gritty details about the game, how it works and even videos of the two designers—Adrian Wong and Bhavin Rokad—playing the game. Nice work guys. –Travis Hudson More »

Animated Atari Pong T-Shirt

The unseasonably warm San Francisco weather today makes me think of Summer attire. That, and how I'd rather be outside today. Bringing such thoughts back to the realm of gadgets, I present you with this T-shirt which mounts an animated (but unplayable) game of Pong on the bony forefront of your chest, using some unspecified display tech and two AAA batteries. This piece of unquestionably tacky attire joins the ranks of more tasteful Pong watch and clock we've recently written about, but this could be the most relevant Pong-themed gadget yet. More »

Pong Watch Pretty Much Complete

We first told you about John Maushammer and his pong watch way back in September, and the good news is that it is finally done. Maushammer was inspired by the pong clock that took the world by storm (not really) this summer.

I succeeded in compressing all the electronics for this watch in to a 10mm-thick case. The 96x64 OLED display runs continuously - unlike older LED watches, there is no need to press a button to see the time. Battery life is 25 hours, so recharging is done every night.

Nice, indeed. His site has detailed build logs, so if you are handy with circuits and a soldering iron, you can build your own. Jump for a video of the design and build process. More »

Akai MPC1000 Sequencer Plays Musical Pong

The Akai MPC100 is a semi-portable "music production center" (MPC) with a 64-Track MIDI Sequencer, a 32-voice Stereo Digital Sampler and 16 velocity and pressure sensitive rubber pads. A group of Japanese coders hacked the operating system and have been selling upgraded versions of the OS for owners to install. The latest rev includes this musical game of Pong, which triggers samples of your choice as it plays. More »

Flashlight Pong

Something we'd either need to be really bored or really drunk to think of—these guys rigged up a screen with light sensors so they can play Pong with flashlights. Next up, Halo 2 with a miner's helmet. – Jason Chen More »

Pong Watch: A Smaller, Geekier Pong Clock

Remember that semi-cool Pong Clock? Sure you do, we only posted about it on a daily basis over the summer. Well, John Maushammer has taken this idea to a smaller level and has designed and created a beautifully crafted Pong wristwatch. It has a 1.2-inch OLED display that will display the time with a friendly game of Pong. It is still in the prototype phases—Maushammer is still working out the kinks with power management, but hopefully it will be available for sale, someday. Until then, hit the jump to see a video of the Pong watch in action. More »

German Pong Dress is Great for Parties

Show me a young lady who has never wanted to wear a dress with a built-in Pong game and I'll show you someone who doesn't enjoy fluffy clouds and rainbows. This little German art project was designed by Max Moswitzer and Margarete Jahrmann and is fairly simple: a series of LEDs line a young lady's dress that are controlled by what look to be old NES controllers. The LEDs light up in response to the user's inputs and a game of Pong breaks out. It's part of a Pong expo, pong.mythos, going on right now in Leipzig. Thankfully, there's a video of the dress in action, complete with one of those German raves going on in the background. – Nicholas Deleon More »

Pong Clock: Hands On

Kotaku's own male underwear model, Brian Crecente, was one of the 400 to purchase and own one of those damn pong clocks that we have been ranting about for months. Check out the video of it in action, below. His only complaint: there is no battery powered option. More »

DIY Pong Clock, Good Idea, Poor Execution

We've been hyping the Pong Clock since last year, when we first heard word of it. Nine months later they finally shipped and we will have to admit that is pretty disappointing. The manufactured Pong Clock is tiny, and costs nearly $300. Somebody else out there shared our same feelings and created a little DIY pong clock. The interface looks identical to the manufactured model, but the outer casing is a bit more ugly. The clock was made out of an old Dell Inspiron 7500 and a LOT of duct tape. It looks fairly functional—after it boots up, of course—but I wouldn't dare hang something that ugly on my walls. Craftsmanship, anyone? – Travis HudsonHome-Built Pong Laptop Clock [Techeblog]

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DIY: Build Your Own Pong Game

What is geekier than a soldering iron and a good game of Pong? Damn near nothing. That is why you can geek out to the max with the Classic Video Table Tennis kit. This is a PCB kit that lets you construct your own Pong game to relive those memories and put your soldering skills to the test. Given that your construction skills can accomplish it, this game can be played by one or two players, includes four difficulty levels and can connect to NTSC televisions with the standard RCA video cables. The kit—which is essentially a bag of resistors, capacitors and diodes—is available through ThinkGeek for $20. – Travis Hudson More »

The Pong Clock Is Finally Shipping!

The makers of the Pong Clock emailed a notice to pre-order customers that their long awaited clocks are finally shipping. There's only 400 made (so far), so it's pretty exclusive (so far). And like so many cool gadgets, these clocks are made in Taiwan. It costs €228.28 ($285.85). More »

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Pong Clock Pre-orders Begin!

Remember that oh-so-badass Pong Clock that was making its way throughout the Interweb a couple of months back? The good news: production has begun and pre-ordering has also started. The bad news: this is going to set you back well over $200 and won't be shipping until February at earliest. What can we say? Being retro is pricey. More »

Pong Wall Clock, Coolness to the Max

Normally I turn into a Negative Nancy when it comes to vintage gaming products and memorabilia, but this thing is cool as hell. There isn t much information available regarding how this was built, but it functions pretty simply. The game of pong is played until another minute has passed, then one of the paddles misses a shot, resulting in an adjustment of the score that matches the time of day. Check out the link for more pictures and whatnot. More »