Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris 40
antdude writes "Pumpktris is a fully playable version of Tetris built into a pumpkin, with 128 Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for the display and the stem serving as a game controller."
Repel them. Repel them. Induce them to relinquish the spheroid. - Indiana University fans' chant for their perennially bad football team
Pumpkin-carving dick-measuring contest (Score:5, Funny)
I have officially lost.
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Speaking of dicks, did anyone else think the joystick/stem should have been a little shorter?
It seemed really phallic-looking in the player's hands.
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Speaking of dicks, did anyone else think the joystick/stem should have been a little shorter? It seemed really phallic-looking in the player's hands.
Should be shorter? Phallic-looking is wrong? Are you kidding? Joystick was invented by a man. Not just any man, but an early French aviator to boot. And the name itself! You really think this is a coincidence? *nudge nudge, wink wink*
slow news day? (Score:1, Insightful)
Maybe I'm missing something..... why is this interesting?
I understand playing tetris on a skyscraper, because A) it's a skyscraper B) getting the rooms to light up on queue is difficult, but this is just LEDs, it's just... normal tetris... but LOOK! It's in a Pumpkin!
Can someone explain why this is interesting?
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Neverwinter MMO by Atari SA (Score:2)
No, it would make SkyRim look like Atari
Atari is publishing a Neverwinter MMORPG [wikipedia.org] next year. So in a sense, Idthesda's Skyrim does look like a forthcoming Atari product: they're both fantasy role-playing games.
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I doubt it would have made it through had it been an electrified parsnip or burning yam.
Dunno mate.
I would totally go to a Burning Yam festival, especially if they have electric pumpkins there. Not so keen on Cinderfella though.
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Cinderfella
Would that be Guy Fawkes; or is my British off?
- V?
PS: Regarding the yams, I concur - with butter and honey.
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Not so British - Jerry Lewis.
And try some Malaysian Fatt Put (crispy yam ring, filled with chicken and cashew), if you get a chance.
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Pumpkin display is still at an early stage of development.
You obviously need to wait until Apple gets into the game and releases an iPumpkin with a Retina display and a touchPumpkin interface (patented of course). Of course, iPumpkins will only be available at Apple stores and may be limited to one per customer.
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You obviously need to wait until Apple gets into the game...
Actually, this guy is already in deep legal trouble.
You see, Apple holds patent #9780870 which protects any, "...fruit named, or fruit-like objects, capable of playing or displaying only non-current computer games or video games."
Additionally, Patent #94345350, gives them exclusive rights to, "...any object, article, device, thing, unit, planet, vehicle, body organ, fruit, vegetable, legume, or any other object or thing which can be discerned and/or observed; whether or not it has been discerned and/or obse
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The were going to write an article on what you do, but "Slashdotter complains about 10,000th article" did not survive the Firehose.
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No he didn't reinvent the wheel or create the next big thing to solve a problem, but he did manage to make me smile. Personally, I consider that a good thing.
Considering the amount of crap being reported as news in the average newspaper, I guess this would count as "yellow press nerd news", and why not? It's a cute thing, and quite ingenious if you ask me to take an old custom like pumpkin carving and bring it into the digital age.
The tenacity of a nerds... (Score:3, Insightful)
Thank you nerds, techies, geeks and other misanthropic, misunderstood outcasts!
Even though this project may just be a game, this type of devotion to science and technological innovation is how we have advanced as a species.
Copyright problem (Score:2)
Not even Tetris. (Score:1)
As hard as I tried to resist... (Score:2)
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I really thought (Score:2)
Someone already did it better, minus the pumpkin (Score:2)
There's a guy on YouTube who implemented a much better clone of Tetris, complete with upcoming piece display, on RGB LEDs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugub6d65b2A [youtube.com]
But they didn't think to shove it inside a pumpkin, so no one cared. There's an Apple analogy in there, somewhere.
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The Portmantice wasn't available for comment.