ping pong
Weapons
This Pneumatic Gun Can Put A Ping Pong Ball Through Plywood
5:30PM Adam Frucci | Ping pong balls are relatively harmless, most of the time. Even if someone slams one at you with a paddle, it never hurts all that much. This pneumatic cannon changes that. [TinyEnormous via Make]
Toys
10:30AM Nick Broughall | Using a single Lego motor and a whole heap of gears and Lego to ramp up the speed, this ping pong launcher will push out ping pong balls fast enough for any would be Forrest Gump to practice their returns. Oh, Lego: Is there anything you can’t do?
[Thanks Daryl!]
Lego Ping Pong Launcher Serves Its Purpose Well
10:30AM Nick Broughall | Using a single Lego motor and a whole heap of gears and Lego to ramp up the speed, this ping pong launcher will push out ping pong balls fast enough for any would be Forrest Gump to practice their returns. Oh, Lego: Is there anything you can’t do?
[Thanks Daryl!]
Design
Mirrored Ping Pong Table is Great for Swinging Bachelors and Flashy Drug Dealers
2:40AM Adam Frucci | Nothing says “I know how to party” like a ping pong table completely covered in mirrors. After all, you can’t do lines off a regular ping pong table, right? More »
Science
Headphones Playing White Noise and a Ping Pong Ball Let You Trip Sans Drugs
12:15AM Adam Frucci | If you’d like to experience the effects of drugs without actually taking any pesky drugs, here’s a little experiment that might be right up your alley. These things called Ganzfeld hallucinations are available to you without any shady alleyway dealing; all you need is a pair of headphones and a ping pong ball cut in half. More »
Design
Modular Ping Pong Table Allows For Crazy 12 Player Games
5:00AM Sean Fallon | If you have ever watched a professional table tennis tournament (or Forrest Gump at least) you know that a two-person game can get completely insane. Now, imagine the mayhem that would ensue with up to 12 people battling it out at once. Thanks to designer Guenter Arndt and his modular table tennis system, this ridiculousness is a reality. More »
Games
RoboPong 2040 Terminates Fun Time
1:00AM Mark Wilson | For some reason, an advertisement from the movie Crazy People comes to mind when watching this RoboPong 2040 commercial. “Robopong won’t just scare you; it will fuck you up for the rest of your life.” Yeah, it costs US$700. Yeah, it’s better at ping pong than you. And yeah, after it embeds a ball into your skull it will “comfort” your grieving wife before teaching your children to play table tennis “just like their pop” and enjoying endless hours of fetch with your dog. Because in a battle between RoboPong and the Terminator, we’re betting on RoboPong. So you, my soft, fleshy friend, don’t stand a chance. [Newgy via DVICE] More »
Games
Audio Ping Pong is a Pain in the Neck…Literally
8:30AM Sean Fallon | The arduino platform has been the basis for a lot of bizarre gadgetry over the years, and the audio ping pong project by Mike McCracken certainly stands up to the best of them. The game is essentially the classic Pong with one major alteration—instead of using your hands and eyes, the game is controlled with audio cues and head movements. More »
Gadgets
Absolut Quartet Makes an Orchestra Out of Ping-Pong Ball Cannons, Robots
1:45PM Haroon Malik | The Absolut Quartet is an impressive electromechanical sculpture, which was put together by Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman. Using ping-pong ball cannons to play a marimba, robot fingers to tinker wine glasses and a central computer to control, well, the whole lot, the two creative minds have created the first—to our knowledge—ping-pong ball based orchestra. It may not be our music of choice to chill out to, but we can’t helped but be dazzled by the majestic union of technology and music, once again. Check out the video above for some ping-ponging, ding-donging, da la la la, ting ting musical madness. Be sure to pop down to 186 Orchard st. in NYC to see it in the flesh. [MAKE] More »
Peripherals
Ping Pong-Themed Webcam Hopefully First and Last Homage to Balls Of Fury
11:10PM Addy Dugdale | Oh Brando, not only do you not heed my pleas for a USB trouser press, but you also continue putting products that are, quite frankly, strange and reprehensible. Who in their right mind would be interested in buying a webcam that looks like a ping-pong bat? Don’t you know that we computer-fixed weirdies have no interest whatsoever in exercise? Some of us, however, do appreciate the box of tissues in one of the press shots. Ping-Pong and webcam aficionados may want to jump for the full specs, anyone with a dirty mind just head straight to the gallery. More »
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