Tobias Franzel has created an interesting concept design that turns a regular household door into a ping-pong table. The playing area swivels out of the center of the door, and after a net is placed down, it’s good to go. Though perhaps not the most practical design in the world, the “Ping-Pong Door” is an interesting multi-purpose object that adds additional functionality where normally there would be none.
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July 23, 2009
(Pic) Door Turns into a Ping-Pong Table
December 9, 2008
Turf Bombing: Location-Based Game for Exploring the Real World
As GPS enabled devices continue to evolve, we expect the trend of online applications that engage us in unique ways with our actual physical environments to continue developing increasingly novel uses for our lives. One of the obvious ways is through play. We’ve previously written about Parallel Kingdom, a location based game where users’ real world wanderings correspond to in-game movements. More recently we came upon Turf Bombing, a game that forms players into loosely associated “gangs” through shared zip codes, and whoseultimate goal is to control the most territory. Participants complete these tasks by exploring different neighborhoods, cities and even countries [...]
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