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Ultimate arcade cabinet can play just about every game ever

Monday, September 15, 2008 - 2:32pm

Now this is an arcade cabinet. The C-MACC arcade cabinet can play any emulated game on it thanks to the computer buried inside. Available online, emulated games will let you play thousands of arcade classics on this machine. But that's...

Marbelous furniture: lose your marbles at the dinner table

Kevin Hall

Monday, September 15, 2008 - 12:11pm

The line between the grown up and kiddie tables blur with Netherlands-based designer Tineke Beunders' Marbelous. It has grooves cut into the tabletop, legs and supports that'll have marbles rolling all the way down to the floor. The best...

Cell phone gamers hunt down odd $10,000-prize-giving statues in Shibuya

Kevin Hall

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 10:47am

Internet game company NHN Japan thought of an absurd way to get people to talk about HanGame, its mobile phone gaming website: Place half-submerged statues of video game characters all over Shibuya, Tokyo. The statues, such as the wrestler...

Professional Bingo Calling Box: Up your game (empty your bank account)

Kevin Hall

Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 12:17pm

Bingo is serious business. It's one of the most widely played games in America. It's played in retirement homes, churches, in grammy's den and anywhere else people are generally inclined to fall asleep. The Bimbo Bingo Box keeps things...

Digital pinball on an old-fashioned wooden table

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 2:40pm

Daniel Soltis's Moving Parts project was another standout invention from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program show today. Soltis describes his project as a "two-player hybrid physical/video pinball game that uses variations in game rules to elicit different social interactions between...

Tospom combines the fun of catch, scrapbooking

Monday, April 7, 2008 - 12:58pm

Just when everyone thought the game of catch was one of the most exhilarating sports around, a company comes around and kicks it up a notch. The Tospom is a device that adds a new twist — it includes...

Enjoy nighttime bocce ball with LED Bocce

Monday, April 7, 2008 - 10:44am

Bocce ball is back! Really. It's the new hip underground sport slowly becoming more mainstream as bars are including bocce courts, and its becoming a staple of any gathering. Now when the lights go low, the bocce won't have...

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Ultimate arcade cabinet can play just about every game ever

Marbelous furniture: lose your marbles at the dinner table

Cell phone gamers hunt down odd $10,000-prize-giving statues in Shibuya

Professional Bingo Calling Box: Up your game (empty your bank account)

Digital pinball on an old-fashioned wooden table

Tospom combines the fun of catch, scrapbooking

Enjoy nighttime bocce ball with LED Bocce

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