Tag: PONG

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The endless remixing of 'Pong' and Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death continues with these 8-bit video game and BSOD belt buckles. [From: BoingBoing] Photoshop nerds ...

If you're sick of Pong news, turn away now. We've seen the iconic paddle and ball game translated to browsers, sweatshirts, a soccer-like video sport, and slot machines. It's even been honored with its own museum. So really it was only a matter of time before someone found a way to make a tabletop game out of the Atari classic. The blog, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, assembled a physical ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Under the leadership of Atif Mushtaq, a crew of super nerds has dismantled and crushed a global spam network responsible for 12-percent of the junk that floods our inboxes. The targeted criminal organization operated a botnet, known as Mega-D, which was composed of over 250,000 compromised and remotely controlled computers. [From: ...

Last week, we reported on some guy's art project that combined 'Pong' and slow dance. Our verdict? YAWN. Thank heavens that an outfit called Stewdio has come along and released a better, more inspired iteration of everyone's favorite go-to game, simply called 'Browser Pong.' Check it: it's your browser as 'Pong.' You know all those annoying pop-up ads that we reflexively click through or block ...

A guy by the name of Ed Keeble recently designed Pong Prom, a project that aims to "produce an experience which is at once competitive and collaborative." Using the LilyPad Arduino -- an open-source computing platform that incorporates physically interactive elements like motion sensors -- Pong Prom makes touch an integral part of the classic game play. Basically, bodies are transformed into ...

If you thought gaming on the iPhone was the ultimate in next-generation time-wasting, think again. Gaming has come back to the real world with 'Sportpong.' Billed as an "interactive physical computer game," the game responds to your movements as you play on a 'field' projected on the floor. Two teams face off in the rectangle and kick (with the aid of a foot-mounted reflector) a projected ball ...

Who doesn't love 'Pong?' Nobody, that's who. That's why we just had to tell you about the Pong Museum, a Web site dedicated to all things 'Pong.' The museum opened its virtual doors on January 27 to celebrate the 40th(ish) anniversary of 'Pong' and the Magnavox Odyssey (the first commercially available video game system). Along with a detailed history of the game and all of its various ...

'Pong' is certainly one of the most familiar video games out there, and when it comes to gambling it doesn't get much easier than playing the slots. Merge the two together and you've got a very expensive gaming habit that could make all those quarters you dropped at the arcades as a kid look like chump change. Gaming company Bally is working to develop a new concept in slot gaming they're calling ...