Move over Kinect, there's a new gaming controller input in town — one where "users control a bowling game by moving their tongues while kissing." Making out for the sake of gaming? Oh, yeah!
Digitial media artist Hye Yeon Nam's experimental interface uses two components:
The concept is intriguing, but looking at the primitiveness of the game's graphical presentation and limited bowling ball movement, the game is nothing more than a demo. A publisher like EA needs to get on this with Kinect or something because we can see a whole hoard of kissing-deprivedDungeons and Dragons geeks who would buy this game.
Hye Yeon Nam, via Mashable
"a customized headset that functions as a sensor receiver and a magnet that provides sensor input. The user affixes a magnet to his/ her tongue with Fixodent. Magnetic field sensors are attached to the end of the headset and positioned in front of the mouth. As the user moves her tongue, this creates varying magnetic fields that are used to control games."Hye Yeon Nam says the goal of the game is "to increase the speed of the ball by moving the tongue faster." We take that to mean, "be gentle, and don't suck your partner's tongue off."
The concept is intriguing, but looking at the primitiveness of the game's graphical presentation and limited bowling ball movement, the game is nothing more than a demo. A publisher like EA needs to get on this with Kinect or something because we can see a whole hoard of kissing-deprivedDungeons and Dragons geeks who would buy this game.
Hye Yeon Nam, via Mashable
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