“British company Captive Media thinks it has developed a product that fills a gap in the market – a urinal mounted, urine-controlled games console for men,” Dougal Shaw reports for BBC News. “It calls it the first ‘hands-free’ video gaming console of its kind.”
“The sturdy device sits above the normal oval ceramic urinal bowl, opening up a whole new world of entertainment,” Shaw reports. “The user is presented with three generous targets to aim for in the urinal: stickers in the unit that read ‘Start,’ ‘Left’ and ‘Right.’ The console is able to detect where the urine is falling by means of an infra-red device. And so a rudimentary ‘joystick’ is set up.”
Shaw reports, “The console unit has a 12 inch LCD screen, and sits behind toughened glass. So it can withstand collateral damage and be easily cleaned. The sensor unit is contactless and does not use a camera, another important design consideration. Windows 7 embedded, it is powered by one of Intel’s Atom dual core microprocessors.”
“A pub in Cambridge hosted a ‘pre-trial launch’ for free earlier this year, and generated some interesting findings. Polling suggests some competitive gamers worked out that by stopping and starting their streams, they could improve their scores,” Shaw reports. “Another noted side effect was that the toilets became markedly cleaner, as a new premium was set on accuracy.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David Andrews” for the heads up.]
Blue Stream of Death?
Shouldn’t they have used a Cray processor instead of an Atom?
Women would be far less tolerant of such a thing.
In fact, they wouldn’t stand for it.
Are they taking the piss?
Oh, wait…
a little slow on the uptake Rasta?
Ha ha! Funny!
Ahhh… I think it is you who didn’t get it… “taking the piss” is a British idiom.
‘Twas humorous, if you got the colloquialism.
If only the English would speak English!
(sarcasm alert, the wife’s a Brit)
At least they’re not talking about bomber patrol…
Hahahahaahhaahahahahahaahahahaha
Hey guys… stop poo-pooing this great idea… or is it pee pee.
Is that a PeeCee running a bog-standard Windows install, or the in stall model running the new Windows Foam 8 with the multi-soak software?
Bill’s ambition has finally been achieved – “Windows Everywhere”.
Just keep your credit card handy. The first 20 seconds are free, then wham-o!
From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” File, adolescent edition.
And when they do innovate, Microsoft can be counted on to create new and interesting ways to contract a virus….
Talk about filling a badly needed gap!
Is this for real? Hahaha that’s pathetic.
There’s a leak in Redmond, this wasn’t supposed to be out until Spring 2012