Real Men Of Genius
By Mitch Berg
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.
March 28th, 2013 at 7:32 am
Adds new meaning to the eternal complaint concerning the amount of time people piss away playing video games.
March 28th, 2013 at 10:55 am
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”.
March 28th, 2013 at 11:13 am
Perhaps “they will come” wasn’t the best turn of phrase in this instance?
March 28th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
They will go.
March 28th, 2013 at 7:21 pm
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 …
March 29th, 2013 at 9:23 am
So Joe is proposing run-off voting.