@Chester_Copperpot: wait it can already be a tv remote, how so?

takemetoyourtoaster

it wou;d be redicoulous if the iphone v2 had a ir blaster on it, then you could use it as a tv remote, then it would be a device that you could use for anything!

takemetoyourtoaster

@Navin R Johnson: Over site? Apple flew over whaaa?

I'm certain that the iPod touch will not be getting a GPS chip. I could be wrong in the end, but I just don't see it happening.

Kaiser-Machead

@Chester_Copperpot: Uhm, how is it going to kill Garmin and Tom Tom without a friggin GPS chip? Biggest over site EVER on Apple's part.

GPS chips are so cheap and small. I hope iphone V2 and itouch V2 remedy this.

Navin R Johnson

I want a $400 phone so zat I too can play pong! I must have eet!

middy

Cool, but it looks like the ball always goes to the next screen in the pattern (in this case, counter-clockwise), regardless of the angle of the ball. It'd be cool if they could truly determine which screen to go to based on the angle.

kylenalepa

love the sound F/X "pong"

B1663R

@takashimike:

sod doom, bio-shock is on its way to iphone

speakerwizard

@Kraftwerker: Dunno man, I'm waiting for that too.....

Fuck the iPhone, can I see some aliums pleez?

TheSonOfKrypton

kinky

ANoel

Where's the Alien footage?

Kraftwerker

Man, I never even thought of that. The iPhone is going to be such a part of our lives forever it's incredible. From being universal remote controls to killing TomTom and Garmin Apple has created a winner.

Chester_Copperpot

[Insert "Doom" comment here]

takashimike

Umm... Welcome to the social?

takashimike

Very cool tech. It would've been more interesting if one of these guys actually missed the ball once in a while. Also like the "bong" sound effect they felt they needed to add.

Sora57

Crazy asians and their funny noises.

P3nnst8r

I remember when the first Pong came out, pre video game systems, etc, it was a hand held unit (and none of that cool slider bar tech) and THAT was the coolest Pong ever, since there was nothing out at that time even remotely like it. It was even before Pac-man and Space Invaders and computers where these HUGE room sized deals with gigantic tapes.
You've come a long way baby. Whats old has become new again.

Curves

All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob. *BONG*

TOWken22

leave it to us Japanese folks to make embarrassingly funny sound F/X. Still pretty cool regardless.

/"bong"

discounteggroll

I am reminded of David Letterman's 'Stupid Pet Tricks'.

It is a cute trick.

Monty

@takemetoyourtoaster: You can make a touch screen application for the TV buttons and then mod a RF transmitter on the bottom where the dock connector is. *BONG* TV remote. Apples API allows you to talk to the dock connector. Theoretically, you could even add GPS modules to the older versions of the iPhone/iPod Touch that would just clip onto the bottom of the device.

Joseph

@Kaiser-Machead: Don't say that! The future of my iPhone / iPod Touch application depends on GPS in the Touch! They gotta put it in! *BONG*

Joseph

@Curves: I thought the first Pong game was in the arcades and later on the Odyssey.

Sora57

@kylenalepa: Yup, you got it. It's turn-based, not position-based. It doesn't depend on the ball angle or the positions of the iPods. I don't even know how you'd do that. You'd need GPS as well as accelerometer data.

j0hnnyb

"Bong", whew that felt good!

maven2k

@j0hnnyb: How would you do that? You'd assume the players are holding their phones in a triangle and in clockwise order of the players. When you were setting up the game, you'd display the corner of a triangle on each player's screen and instruct them to orient the iphones so that the pictures join together to make a single large triangle.

Pender

That is neat.

@Kraftwerker:

I think it is only being shown to the press today. The public won't be able to see it for a few months.

justinpe

Gotta love the touch screens--so much easier and it really gets to the paranoid schizophrenic germaphobes--god those types are annoying!

bunnypower

@Curves: "You've come a long way baby. Whats old has become new again." Fuck yeah! A three way at that

bunnypower

@Curves:

I had an Atari 1600 (or mabey 2600) when I was a kid. Played pong, tank commander, pitfall, etc. Ah the classics. Seems these days the ultimate geek thing to do to a powerful piece of tech is to play pong or doom on it.

fsusmithc2

@Sora57: To the best of my recollection (which may have been altered at the time due to the fact that we wore roach clips as jewelry), the first Pong that I ever saw was a small hand held unit about 6"x8" with 3 red buttons down each of the sides. Arcades at the time had the old style pin-ball machines and nothing was really a video game yet. I looked on line and cant find a pic of it, though I did see some Pongs that are WAY older than I imagined, so apparently the one I had was not the first.
Now I am going to get out my mood ring and platform shoes and head for the Disco. Keep on Truckin...

Curves

But can you make the paddles *smaller*?

Cisco-Kid

@Joseph: lol...

Well, part of the reason I believe this is the fact that the iPod touch doesn't even have frackin' volume buttons like the iPhone.

Seriously. WTF.

Kaiser-Machead

@Navin R Johnson: There are no GPS chips because most mac/iPhone users "want to believe" and "trust no one". If Fox Mulder had a GPS in his phone he would instantly EMP it... Am I right?

Subterfuge

It's missing the perquisite pretty Asian girls in skimpy outfits.

PCLoadLetter

It would be way cooler if they'd used the iPhone's accelerometer to move the paddle instead of the touchscreen.

papaguru

Would be better if it use the iPhones themselves as paddles and a lesser phone as the ball.

adamator

@Navin R Johnson: Did you just start reading Giz today? GPS in the new iPhone has been speculated for months now. And its been somewhat "confirmed" through developers who have access to it.

Chester_Copperpot

old games never die

Gonzie

add that to the "coolest thing I've seen today" list

uberfu

iPhone users sharing a "pong"... I thought they said iPhone users were sharing a BONG...

Windhawk

if there were boobs it would be rly more interesting...

=)

jpbraconi

Sigh, of course they had to be Asian. It's stuff like this that I can't get a role other than a computer nerd or a Kung-fu master

Chester_Copperpot

I couldn't help laughing from the first ball bouncing onto the other's screen when the left guy moved it specifically to the right guy. But when it panned up to the their faces and their asian... Hah!

Stearns

It thrills me to no end that I'm half Chinese.

Gilbert

@kylenalepa: @kylenalepa:

Agreed. It does not depend on the angle of the ball. It always goes in order. Screen 1, to 2, to 3, etc.

MerlynNY

Ah, Japanese at their finest.

poisonfist

Losers.

McSkippy

I've been playing with some of the games (in beta) for my zune80, and there is a version of pong that sends a ball between two zunes. No touch screen, but pretty cool anyway.

Good to see some game dev for iPod users too.

stratboy

Bloody awful. Smack me silly and call me, Daffy, but that was horrible. Please refrain from Iphonasturation. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

SinAmos

Zune rocks!!

wetworker

Any faster and the ball would have poped out of the iPhone - that wud have been cool..

honk4RC

It passes based on the angle of the ball?
I sent a tip on this just this morning... it seemed to me more like the ball was passing from one iPhone to the other in sequence rather than based in angles...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Good start, now can we get multiplayer Arkanoid?

But only to be trapped in space warped by someone.....

isoSasquatch

what the hell is wrong with those guys?

avconsumer