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Over a Month Ago

Audio Ping Pong

by per

Audio Ping-Pong by Mike McCracken

Mike McCracken, loneconspirator , has made an Audio ping-pong game (or audio Pong, really) for one person using an Arduino board, headphones, and an accelerometer (a sensor that measures tilt, used in the Nintendo Wii controller). It is still in an early prototype stage, but I have a feeling he will keep refining it.

It is a one-person game. You put on the headphones, and you will hear a sound “approaching”. It will be to your right or left, and you tilt your head to center the sound. If you tilt your head, or the “paddle”, to the right position, you strike the “ball”, and it will come back. Speed increases over time, just like classic arcade games.

Johnny Lee

by connor

Johnny Chung Lee

Just over a year ago i first saw this video of Johnny Lee creating a multi-touch (touchless) interface using a Wii remote. Though I thought that the idea was neat and that Johnny was a genius, I kind of wrote it off as a follower of the muti-touch trend. A few months later I saw this video. This time Johnny is creating a fairly stunning head tracking interface, again using the Wii remote and a few parts. Once more I was thoroughly impressed with Mr. Lee’s innovation, but I still wasn’t really catching the “why” other than making some cool things happen with a Wiimote and a PC…until I saw his TED talk.

Johnny Lee is setting a new standard for hi-tech research, and he is doing so by making it available to everyone. Using a camcorder and YouTube, he is teaching the world how to create devices that are at the frontline of innovation. This can empower users of technology and fosters much stronger development of products. Rather than developing in a box, he is trying to make everyone a part of the process.