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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]
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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]
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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]
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Esoteric Dutch blog Fresh Creation went to the Holland Innovation fair in, surprise, the Netherlands, and they found this crazy little — well, big, actually — thing. Park To Play lets you play games — Pong, Tetris, Pinball, Space Invaders etc — with your car. Yep, you didn't hear wrong. Part art installation, part crazy, what-have-they-been-smoking-over-in-them-thar-low-countries-coffee-houses, they've rigged out the steering wheel and doors with sensors so that you can use the car to control the game. Headlights, brakes, car doors, they all become buttons to control the game with. I like the fact that the pinball flippers are controlled by the car doors. [Fresh Creation]
Park To Play Lets You Use Your Car as a Gaming Joystick
Esoteric Dutch blog Fresh Creation went to the Holland Innovation fair in, surprise, the Netherlands, and they found this crazy little — well, big, actually — thing. Park To Play lets you play games — Pong, Tetris, Pinball, Space Invaders etc — with your car. Yep, you didn't hear wrong. Part art installation, part crazy, what-have-they-been-smoking-over-in-them-thar-low-countries-coffee-houses, they've rigged out the steering wheel and doors with sensors so that you can use the car to control the game. Headlights, brakes, car doors, they all become buttons to control the game with. I like the fact that the pinball flippers are controlled by the car doors. [Fresh Creation]
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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 »
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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. More »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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 »
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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 »
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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. 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. More »
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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 »
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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? Home-Built Pong Laptop Clock [Techeblog]
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? Home-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. More »
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