Real Men Of Genius

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.

Used beer is now liquid assets – in gaming terms, anyway.

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.

6 thoughts on “Real Men Of Genius

  1. Adds new meaning to the eternal complaint concerning the amount of time people piss away playing video games.

  2. 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”.

  3. 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 …

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