Pong Dress: Play your favorite old-skool game on a person

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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[Matt @ Aug 26th 2006 11:26PM]

From the video, it looks like it would be confusing to play.

[Merlin @ Aug 26th 2006 11:58PM]

Looks like something the Japanese would design

[Rusty @ Aug 27th 2006 12:05AM]

I was going to say something about twisting the knobs, but I better not.

[DarkFader @ Aug 27th 2006 1:36AM]

I can imagine 3D LED cubes having a low resolution, but this is just crap!

[Robin @ Aug 27th 2006 1:48AM]

I'm thinking that she could use a good game of leiser suit larry.....

[Lcd schermen @ Aug 27th 2006 4:01AM]

japanese people will love this gadget

[Silver @ Aug 27th 2006 5:10AM]

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

[Me @ Aug 27th 2006 6:02AM]

Joy stix...
Um...
Score...
Um...
Elipsis abound.
Ententre redux.

[Me @ Aug 27th 2006 6:03AM]

Joi de stix...

[Karl @ Aug 27th 2006 11:06AM]

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 :)

[ZZ @ Aug 27th 2006 4:14PM]

Does the white girl come with the shirt?

[kelly @ Aug 27th 2006 4:33PM]

interesting..
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[gene f @ Aug 28th 2006 12:30AM]

>> German-speaking bretheren

[teo @ Aug 28th 2006 9:37AM]

I think the game would much more fun on a larger woman. More screen size.