SymBall: play table tennis with an opponent via your mobile phone

Because why have actual sport when you can have simulacrum, really? Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre knows there's only one thing better than real ping-pong, and that's camera-driven ping-pong played virtually with cellphone rackets. The phone display shows the virtual table, net, ball and rackets, and you make your shots by tilting the phone to move your racket. Bluetooth handles the data communication layer in the SymBall game, but it would also be possible to play via slower radio transmission. The next logical step is to set up a SymBall tournament to be played between ping ping robots so we don't actually have to be involved at all.

[Skeletor @ Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Funny how they took down the article on how to transfer music to mobile phones for free...I guess the RIAA is hawking Engadget's ass!!!!

[JK @ Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

hahaha Skeletor, you must be new here. I'll bet your comment (this one too) doesn't make it past midnight.

[JK @ Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Besides, it's not like that article wasn't a rehash of May 24, 2004's HOWTO:

http://engadget.com/entry/1498517852773617/

Lazy bastards...

[Tyme @ Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

r u serious.. i didnt even notice it was takin down. thats gay..

[Gareth @ Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

so what happened to the music article?

[Dave @ Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

SymBall looks cool. I'm just about to try it. You can get it from http://www.vtt.fi/multimedia/download_symball.html