Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

The Pong Dress, created by a pair of Austrian artists, smacks of something that their German-speaking bretheren at the Chaos Computer Club might concoct — but the Vienna-based Ludic Society beat ‘em to it. Max Moswitzer and Margarete Jahrmann combined a dress with a 5 x 7 inch screen to play a a game of Pong on the wearer’s body. The joysticks are quite the coup de grâce, however: dueling old-skool NES controllers, plugged in at hip level. How do you keep track of the score, you ask? The scoreboard can be found chest-high. (Don’t blame us, we didn’t design it.) The dress is now on display at the Pong Mythos exhibition in Leipzig, Germany — we assume with Moswitzer wearing a stuffed bra to go with it.

[Via networked_performance]

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Filed under: Displays, Wearables

If for some reason you feel the need to sport a set of obnoxious LED displays on your head, you might as well go all out and embed them in the ugliest hat you can find. Lain over at LushProjects is one person who felt such a need, and spent over six months designing and building the, um, unique piece of headwear you see pictured above -- which besides displaying the text message of your choice, also throws down a pretty mean game of Pong or simulated Space Invaders. To liven things up a bit, Lain even tossed in a microphone and amp, so that fellow concert-goers need only glance over at his creation for a graphical representation of the music blasting at a show. We're not sure if the hat actually lets you play a real game of Pong or not, but even if it does, having strangers stand inches from our face while tugging on our ear flaps doesn't sound all that appealing - we'll stick with our Pong clock for now, thanks.

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Not only has the Pong Clock shipped, it’s arrived!

Take a look at the unwrapping of the pong clock, complete with a size comparison with the iMac. From all the pictures we saw before, we thought the clock was a lot bigger. It’s actually about the size of an UMPC. – Jason Chen

First Pong Clock In The Wild [Zelfspot via digg]