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

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Aug 26th 2006 at 11:02PM

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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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: austria, germany, ludic society, LudicSociety, nes, pong, pong dress, PongDress

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Matt @ Aug 26th 2006 11:26PM

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

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Merlin @ Aug 26th 2006 11:58PM

Looks like something the Japanese would design

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Rusty @ Aug 27th 2006 12:05AM

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

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DarkFader @ Aug 27th 2006 1:36AM

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

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Robin @ Aug 27th 2006 1:48AM

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

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Lcd schermen @ Aug 27th 2006 4:01AM

japanese people will love this gadget

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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

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Me @ Aug 27th 2006 6:02AM

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

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Me @ Aug 27th 2006 6:03AM

Joi de stix...

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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 :)

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ZZ @ Aug 27th 2006 4:14PM

Does the white girl come with the shirt?

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kelly @ Aug 27th 2006 4:33PM

interesting..
-
H

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gene f @ Aug 28th 2006 12:30AM

>> German-speaking bretheren

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teo @ Aug 28th 2006 9:37AM

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

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