foosball
Toys
MaruBot Football League Is Next-Generation Foosball With 80s Look
12:40AM Jesus Diaz | The purist will probably hate this. Well, bad luck purists, because I don’t care. This MaruBot robotic foosball table is the next thing I want to play. More »
Games
Space Foosball Table Looks Ready For Star-Trek
8:20PM Danny Allen | Wow, the humble foosball table just continues to evolve. This latest incarnation keeps the familiar handles, but replaces the spinning players and ball with physics-powered graphics developed at Ewha Women’s University in Korea. It looks pretty cool in action: More »
Games
A Foosball Coffee Table That’s Actually Semi-Affordable
4:00AM Sean Fallon | Not that $US600 is a small chunk of change or anything, but it certainly beats shelling out several thousand dollars for the alternative. More »
Toys
Barbie Foosball Creeps Me Out While Inexplicably Excites Me
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | We like foosball, despite the fact that we can’t play real football. We like Barbie, despite the fact that she doesn’t have any genitalia. It’s no surprise then that we really like Foosball Barbie. More »
Design
Glass Foosball Table Has Serious Consequences for Spinnies
4:00AM Adam Frucci | The Teckell Collection is a completely glass foosball table designed to be “Green.” I just wonder if the designers have ever actually played foosball. More »
Games
2eleven Foosball Table is Decked Out With Tech
2:10AM Sean Fallon | German company 2eleven isn’t some foreign knockoff trying to sell “Groß Gulps”—they are actually the masterminds behind this futuristic foosball table. More »
Robots
Robotic Foosball Table Can School Human Players
4:20AM Sean Fallon | Every other week it seems that the bar for foosball tables gets set higher and higher. The new mark to beat comes to us from a group of engineering students from The University of Adelaide. As part of a final engineering project, the students utilised a 96-pinhole camera and LED sensor grid, custom-written software and a precision actuation system to create a table capable of beating the pants off of a human player. Seriously, if we put as much effort into other things as we do making cool foosball tables, we would probably have cured a few diseases by now. UPDATE: This is not the first autonomous foosball table ever built, but is definitely more streamlined than the Georgia Tech version. [Rockwell Automation via Born Rich] More »
Games
Crystal Foosball Tables Suck All of the Fun Out of the Game
11:00AM Sean Fallon | We have seen long foosball tables, hi-fi foosball tables and even beautiful foosball tables before, but none can compare to the luxury and elegance that the Teckell Collection can provide. The tables come in a number of different versions, but they all feature a crystal frame with shiny aluminium players—potentially making them the most expensive foosball tables the world has ever seen.
Games
Full-Body Virtual Foosball Game Called Ukikit (Get It?)
7:15AM Wilson Rothman | The Wii-volution is in full effect at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program—a perfect example is this physical virtual foosball game called Ukikit. You Velcro a pink strap to your foot, and an iSight camera tracks its movement while a sonar sensor tracks your proximity. The data translates into swivel kicks and side-to-side slides in (almost) realtime. I loved playing it with inventor Thomas Chan almost as much as I enjoyed the “Moving Parts” virtual pinball game, but as you can see in the video, both the system and I both need a little more practice before we’re perfect. [Ukikit; ITP 2008] More »
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