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MIT Creates Urine-Controlled Video Game
cscx writes "Well, they've done it again. The boys at MIT have designed a video game that's playable by doing your business at a urinal . The game resembles "Duck Hunt" from the Nintendo days, except instead of the Zapper gun, the game is controlled by your stream hitting a multitude of sensors placed on the back wall of the urinal. Weird? Yes. Still cool? You bet." The accompanying document (PDF link, here's an HTML version from Google) explains how this game could lead to improved sanitation, since you won't want to miss, and may even increase personal hydration, since getting rid of all that water is now so much fun.
I seriously think this game is just taking the piss...
Daniel
Carpe Diem
I guess it does bring a whole new meaning to headshots... *ducks*
~Anztac
The iLoo expansion pack! ;)
First pee!!!
Genebrew
It's a shame they did not manage to build the screen into the urinal. They probably expect people to have great hand-eye coordination because now you cannot see where you are peeing.
Suggestion for next in-urinal game: House of the Dead?
The FlyUI already does this over in Europe, just without all the high-tech crap.
Video games are always being marketed to boys, but this takes that gender-preference a little far, don't you think?
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Peeball!
Basically, it's who can dissolve the ball of dodgy chemicals int the fastest time/most stylish way. I'm a Master Blaster :)
Finaly people will stop looking at the urinal I'm using!
Now we just need to get these sensors working in toilets. Every time I drop a deuce, I'd use the Redeemer in UT2003, or bomb the unsuspecting enemy camp in Battlefield 1942.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
Anyone ever cheat in Duck Hunt by using the light gun really close to the TV screen? Now the hung dude will be accused of cheating. (Which would be me in that case >B^)>
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
I think "Dick Hunt" is a catchy name that is far less ambiguous than "You're In Control".
This game just pisses me off!!
^_^
Some of the slogans this can use:
"We aim to please, you aim too, please!"
"The fingers that pick the cigarette butts out of the urnal also flip your burgers."
However, I hope they don't start accepting advertising on this system:
"Hey guys - want high score? ENLARGE YOUR THING!"
"You could aim higher if you got OUR GENUINE V*AGRA!"
www.eFax.com are spammers
I can just see some guy getting addicted to this game:
"No, sweetheart, we can't leave... I HAVE to go to the bathroom again. Get me a pitcher!"
Last time I was using my pee for target practice (about second grade) waving all that around made for much worse sanitation than simply focussing on one spot.
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what about those of us who tried to shoot that annoying dog? our accuracy would probably suffer, not improve.
"Life is great; without it, you'd be dead." -Harmony Korine
No, it just creates a new market for accessories.
... develop a clone of SinkSub controlled by the vector of your poo?
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you know? depth charges...
the computer is online
i am not at it
what a waste of ressources
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apparently their webserver is out of urine because I can't get to the site...
FYI, this is partly courtesy of Monzy, of Monzy.com fame. more here
It's just another pissing contest.
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
I'm surprised no one mentioned possible use of "streaming video" and "flushing the cache".
Aren't they worried that this game would only be played by men? Women would be at a severe disadvantage on this one.
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I don't want to know what they're planning for toilets...
"I only speak the truth"
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At least it's not a swordfight game.
"But how could they aim it?", one exclaims.
Just another prank pulled off by some students at MIT. On the web site you can clearly see a picture of a female standing there at the urinal playing the game. How can she do that? It's a known fact that women do not exist at MIT.
"Your in" control
"Urine" control
ha ha ha
In Europe they simply put a little picture of a bug where they wanted the stream to hit. Rest Rooms were much cleaner after that.
Seems a little over engineered here in the US.
Apple free since 1990!
This posting's been here for quite a while but nobody has mentioned the classic Scary Movie scene where they have a pissing contest in the bathroom in the movie theater, reminescent (sp?) of that old carnival game with the water gun and the thingy that raises whenever you hit it.
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steve Wright
Pissing away the moments that make up the dull day
You pee and waste the hours in an in hand way
Leaking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to shake it away
--Pink Floyd
Shake it more than 3 times and you're duck hunting with it.
I always wanted to play games with my pee. You know how when you go to carnivals and you got the water guns you shoot at targets and race. Oh yeah...
-illumina+us "I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
Does it have a boss key?
Does it keep a top score?
What happens if you've got the top score and no more juice left to select the initials?
How do you tell the difference between someone who's looking over your shoulder to see your top score and someone who's looking over your shoulder just to get their kicks?
Is there a better score for a lower calibre weapon?
It take more faith to believe in evolution than it takes to believe in God
You're In Control questions a basic social code of privacy by assuming that (even simulated) public urination is acceptable if the participant is playing a computer game.
Does that mean they are thinking of putting these things in arcades? Talk about stage fright . . .
Now we're gonna get flooded with all those corny "joystick" jokes.
A pee shooter?
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...will there be multiplayer?
This is typical sexism at MIT. How are women supposed to play this game??
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
GTRacer
- More like a Cricket, actually...
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
When they programmed the controller - I wonder if they made use of Stream IO...
...is a game that prevents people from wiping bugers on the dang wall. Now, that would nice.
When all else fails, piss on it. At least you will feel better in some kind of way.
...Will that damn dog pop out to laugh at me if I miss and hit my foot?
like xbill!
Finally I will no longer get yelled at or arrested for pissing on that goddamn dog
Back in my day, we didn't have these fancy electronic games. Our pee games were writing in snow, dissolving the urinal cookie, or cutting up toilet paper.
get a cute, smiling chick fondling a fake phallis (garden hose, no less) on camera.
God, I can imagine what's next. "We outfitted our female subjects with interactive spheres that dangle below the test harness. Scratching or grabbing them while playing earns extra points!"
First Pissing Shooter...
The tag line says they will integrate the video game with an interactive display for news. They are, if you will, missing the mark. The preferred theme is not news, but the Sunday newsmaker talk shows. Combine Whack the Monkey with a few Washington talking heads from Face the Nation, and you get: Whack the Nation. Pee on Bob Schieffer, and Leslie Stahl pops up. Urinum politicum.
Am I the only one who plays this game already ? I aim for the holes. When that gets boring, try to write letters or draw things. Do not eat the big white mints.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
...Beverly Hills 90210 was popular? MIT could have hit it big with this show still on the air.
I can see it now, target practice with the cast members instead of Ducks.
Dolemite
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It's good to know all those dollars are going to good use.
Actually, this would have been useful at an old college apartment. We ended up putting a sign in the stall asking our roommates to please aim.
Are they going to display people's high scores up on the wall?
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.