The LED Pong hat

If for some reason you feel the need to sport a set of obnoxious LED displays on your head, you might as well go all out and embed them in the ugliest hat you can find. Iain over at LushProjects is one person who felt such a need, and spent over six months designing and building the, um, unique piece of headwear you see pictured above -- which besides displaying the text message of your choice, also throws down a pretty mean game of Pong or simulated Space Invaders. To liven things up a bit, Iain even tossed in a microphone and amp, so that fellow concert-goers need only glance over at his creation for a graphical representation of the music blasting at a show. We're not sure if the hat actually lets you play a real game of Pong or not, but even if it does, having strangers stand inches from our face while tugging on our ear flaps doesn't sound all that appealing - we'll stick with our Pong clock for now, thanks.

[Via Make and Hack-A-Day]

[Noah @ Jul 17th 2006 10:50AM]

PONG!!!!! I need this!!!

[Jeff @ Jul 17th 2006 10:59AM]

Oh my god, that's totally cool.
I will wear that hat during winter time.

[aupton @ Jul 17th 2006 11:35AM]

hmm Goatse anyone ?

[Dave @ Jul 17th 2006 11:50AM]

The rationale probably ends in "because you can."

I mean, c'mon. You have hats. You have Pong. Pretty soon somebody was going to put the two together.

[wiiemu @ Jul 17th 2006 11:59AM]

And the ultimate hack for this hat is interface with the brain to control it wirelessly.

[mreeve @ Jul 17th 2006 12:05PM]

Now if you could only configure it to display friendly messages to strangers.

[memewaryr @ Jul 17th 2006 12:22PM]

Looks like something out of the street bazaar scence in Blade Runner.

[All Your Lost Socks @ Jul 17th 2006 12:57PM]

Well it does say "the text message of your choice"...

[Perrey Z. @ Jul 17th 2006 2:48PM]

Just what some of you need, road kill with a LED display. Now nerds can pre-programmed it to read "I Suck, and you know it"

[jcg @ Jul 17th 2006 2:51PM]

Whoa three things into one:
-a hat
-pong
-a very succesfull way of being sure you will never get laid.

[Grant @ Jul 17th 2006 3:38PM]

I find your ideas intriguing, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Free Cingular Ringtones @ Jul 17th 2006 4:03PM]

Oh man, just think about the great sayings that can be put on that during BEER Pong! =)

[jasafar @ Jul 18th 2006 7:38AM]

That's actually pretty badass... it's like a high-tech Cousin Eddie Griswald. Sweet!

[elmaska @ Jul 18th 2006 10:20AM]

It's that a bottle of Cune, one of my favourite spanish wines - Ribera de Duero-?. What a tasteful choice!