The Pong Dress, created by a pair of Austrian artists, smacks of something that their
German-speaking bretheren at the Chaos Computer Club might concoct -- but the Vienna-based Ludic Society beat 'em to it. Max Moswitzer and Margarete Jahrmann combined a dress with a 5 x 7 inch screen to play a a game of
Pong on the wearer's body. The joysticks are quite the coup de grâce, however: dueling old-skool NES controllers, plugged in at hip level. How do you keep track of the score, you ask? The scoreboard can be found chest-high. (Don't blame us, we didn't design it.) The dress is now on display at the Pong Mythos exhibition in
Leipzig, Germany -- we assume with Moswitzer wearing a stuffed bra to go with it.
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posted Aug 26th 2006 11:02PM
From the video, it looks like it would be confusing to play.
>> German-speaking bretheren
Looks like something the Japanese would design
I was going to say something about twisting the knobs, but I better not.
I can imagine 3D LED cubes having a low resolution, but this is just crap!
I'm thinking that she could use a good game of leiser suit larry.....
japanese people will love this gadget
If this was made by an amature hobbyist or the like then I'd be impressed, but from what I understand, this is supposed to be exhibited. From that standpoint, it looks pretty poorly done.
And the screen isn't 5x7 inch, it's 5x7 pixels.
-KJ
Joy stix...
Um...
Score...
Um...
Elipsis abound.
Ententre redux.
Joi de stix...
dear lord, and they display this in my home city!
I've got to check this out. Let's see if they have live models :)
Does the white girl come with the shirt?
interesting..
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H
I think the game would much more fun on a larger woman. More screen size.