{"id":35431,"date":"2013-03-28T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35431"},"modified":"2013-03-28T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:53:12","slug":"real-men-of-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35431","title":{"rendered":"Real Men Of Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You build a better mousetrap &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2013\/03\/26\/minor-league-baseball-team-to-debut-urinal-video-games\">or urinal<\/a> &#8211; and they will come.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/pubdbimages\/image\/46026\/FE_DA130326urinalgames425x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"317\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Used beer is now liquid assets &#8211; in gaming terms, anyway.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Pennsylvania&#8217;s Lehigh Valley IronPigs will debut the &#8220;Urinal Gaming System&#8221; in its men&#8217;s bathrooms\u2014the custom urinals feature a &#8220;pee controlled&#8221; video screen that will entertain fans as they use the restroom.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s good to see good ol&#8217; American ingenuity finding a problem, stepping up and solving it&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The system is designed by a British company called Captive Media\u2014in a demo for the urinal, the company shows a snowboarding slalom game in which the character is controlled by where the player pees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for urine-controlled Asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t hold my breath. This should be an interesting bit of Title IX litigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You build a better mousetrap &#8211; or urinal &#8211; 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&#8217;s Lehigh Valley IronPigs will debut the &#8220;Urinal Gaming System&#8221; in its men&#8217;s bathrooms\u2014the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35436,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35431\/revisions\/35436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}