You build a better mousetrap – or urinal – and they will come.
A minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania will become the first professional sports franchise to offer urine-controlled video games in its restrooms when the season starts in April.
Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley IronPigs will debut the “Urinal Gaming System” in its men’s bathrooms—the custom urinals feature a “pee controlled” video screen that will entertain fans as they use the restroom.
Well, it’s good to see good ol’ American ingenuity finding a problem, stepping up and solving it…
The system is designed by a British company called Captive Media—in a demo for the urinal, the company shows a snowboarding slalom game in which the character is controlled by where the player pees.
Oh.
I’m waiting for urine-controlled Asteroids.
But I won’t hold my breath. This should be an interesting bit of Title IX litigation.
Adds new meaning to the eternal complaint concerning the amount of time people piss away playing video games.
Did a quick on line search to see a little about the team. And got hit with this bit of PC fascism. The IronPigs are a take on Pig Iron (Allentown-Bethlehem in the heart of old industry America). Their mascot is a pig named “Pork Chop”. Well, was. People said Pork Chop is a racial slur against Puerto Ricans, so they were forced to change the name. That’s right. You can’t call a pig “Pork Chop”.
Perhaps “they will come” wasn’t the best turn of phrase in this instance?
They will go.
I think that a new mode of political polling voting could be a byproduct of this technology.
Images of all candidates for a particular office could be displayed across the backsplash of the urinal. The “hits” per candidate would be tallied and voter sentimant could be determined. It would reset after each auto-flush so only one vote per person would be allowed.
The only flaw I see would be that most conservative women would not be able to make use of this system …
So Joe is proposing run-off voting.