LED gaming on tables

Author: Ryan Garside
Published: 24th November 2006
Comments (13) Stumble
Here's the LED table in action. Roulette and Pong are the games currently working.

Here's the LED table in action. Roulette and Pong are the games currently working.

Moritz Waldemeyer, a concept furniture artist, has unveiled his latest creations at the Rabin Hage gallery in London. They included a table capable of playing Pong and an interactive table based Roulette game.

The Pong game uses a combination of LEDs and touch pads to make the game playable. It's an Apple-esque white colour with futuristic looking legs. We haven't played it yet but it certainly looks good fun.

The second table features a roulette board with working wheel which simulates the rolling ball motion common to all casino addicts. This type of technology could be the first step on the ladder of ultimately putting croupiers out of work. All they need now is a table that can automatically pick up all the winnings and humans will become redundant.

The technology is particularly exciting in what it could mean for the future of all computing, not only gaming. Should this take off we'll soon be able to access the internet from our breakfast table whilst eating our cornflakes. Or perhaps whilst sitting on the train we'll be able to watch a movie on one of the flip-down tables. It most certainly won't be for a while yet but the future's still exciting nonetheless.

Like the look of the table, check it out in more detail at Waldemeyer's blog and then let us know how you'd get the most out of the technology in the forums.
Quote [USRF]Obiwan 24th November 2006, 13:36
I look at the picture and the only thing i thought at that split second was: "ouch! that got to be very painful standing like that for hours. It got to be named: the spine-breaker table game. "
Quote Atomic 24th November 2006, 13:56
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The second table features a roulette board with working wheel which simulates the rolling ball motion common to all casino addicts. This type of technology could be the first step on the ladder of ultimately putting croupiers out of work.
I wouldnt trust the output of a computer for roulette, its just not the same really.
Quote bllt2bnry 24th November 2006, 14:53
Seems like a bit like style over substance to be honest.
Quote Tyinsar 24th November 2006, 15:44
The first thing I thought of is those really old handheld games where a series of LEDs represented the football players or the ball coming at the batter. To me this look like it's just a Slightly updated version of Pong - no big deal.

I'd also be reluctant to trust any electronic gambling device (but then I'm not a gambler anyway: my math is greater than my greed :) )

And this doesn't look near as good to me as the Multi-Touch system mentioned here (especially check out the "WoW demonstration" & yes we know it's not WoW but Warcraft3)
Quote Tyinsar 24th November 2006, 15:47
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Originally Posted by bllt2bnry
Seems like a bit like style over substance to be honest.
thus making it even more "Apple-esque" :D
Quote Spacecowboy92 24th November 2006, 16:33
I like it, if I had the money it would be a cool thing to have around.
Quote <A88> 24th November 2006, 16:38
Y'know, not everything white is Apple-esque...

<A88>
Quote trailblazer 24th November 2006, 17:36
I agree the pong table is no big deal, anyhow can you imagine that in a bright or sunny room. There is a photo of the roulette table on the blog and that does look cool. Other uses I could think of might be in a restaurant for menu updates or changes, or in an airport where you could get an update of flight info etc from the table ! Or maybe it's already been done.
Quote DXR_13KE 24th November 2006, 18:39
very interesting... lets see if this evolves into something more useful/fun.
Quote DreamTheEndless 24th November 2006, 19:17
Wow - Did any of you check the link to the fashion show in the blog? I'm not much for fashion shows, but this was pretty incredible. About halfway through the video it gets to the dresses that literally transform while the person is wearing them. They grow longer or shrink and change color while at the same time looking like hi-fashion dresses and not some geeky proof of concept. fantastic. Check it out.

Oh, and just a warning if you are at work while reading this: The very end of the video has a dress that gets sucked up into the woman's hat leaving her completely naked on stage. It looks cool, but if your boss happened to be looking over your shoulder at the time he might not appreciate it......
Quote Tyinsar 24th November 2006, 21:36
Found what I was reminded of: this , this, and this . How about a full size table of one of those? :)

I think this would be great as a home brew project but I suspect it's commercial potential is somewhat limited.
Quote Bladestorm 25th November 2006, 06:12
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Originally Posted by DreamTheEndless
Wow - Did any of you check the link to the fashion show in the blog? I'm not much for fashion shows, but this was pretty incredible. About halfway through the video it gets to the dresses that literally transform while the person is wearing them. They grow longer or shrink and change color while at the same time looking like hi-fashion dresses and not some geeky proof of concept. fantastic. Check it out.

Oh, and just a warning if you are at work while reading this: The very end of the video has a dress that gets sucked up into the woman's hat leaving her completely naked on stage. It looks cool, but if your boss happened to be looking over your shoulder at the time he might not appreciate it......

Very impressive, some of the elements looked like something you might otherwise think to be special effects in sci-fi, others you could kind of see little hydraulic rams which spoiled it slightly for me :)
Quote sadffffff 25th November 2006, 09:36
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Originally Posted by <A88>
Y'know, not everything white is Apple-esque...

<A88>
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