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ping pong penguin video game marches onto your tv

ping pong penguin video game console weird chinese

Sure, you could be playing ping pong on your Nintendo Wii, but why would you play on a system with a boring rectangular sensor bar you can have a video game console comes with a receiver that looks like a penguin?

Thankfully, placing this penguin on top of your television will not cause it to explode, but it will, let…

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January 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful video games

ping pong printer produces perfect projectiles

Ping Pong Ball Printer

Why print on boring old paper, when you can get your message across on some nice bouncy ping pong balls? The appropriately named PingPongPrinter can print dot-matrix messages directly onto the spherical surface of ping pong balls.

Builders Vern Graner and Rick Abbott of The Robot Group used a Parallax inkjet print head kit and the EFX-TEK Prop-2 controller board…

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February 8th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods robotics strange + wonderful

wii ping pong paddles: balls of fury

Wii Ping Pong Paddle

If you enjoy the occasional game of table tennis on your Nintendo Wii, here’s a way to complete the experience. Check out these ping pong paddles which snap on to your Wii-mote controllers.

I’m not really sure why they’re being called “3-in-1″, since I can’t think of anything else they could be used as besides ping pong paddles. Maybe they’re…

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October 24th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games

amazing machine paints images with ping pong balls

Ping Pong Pixel

Artists Jonathan den Breejen and Marenka Deenstra developed the interactive artwork, Ping Pong Pixel, a machine which will take in a digital image, then render a huge image using colored ping pong balls.
The installation contains a 2-meter by 3-meter display board which is injected with 2700 ping pong balls from a dispensing cabinet which contains tubs of 6 differently…

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October 3rd, 2006 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design interactive strange + wonderful