Coming to a Laundromat Near You: Video Game-controlled Washing Machines!
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Doing laundry may no longer be the boring, meaningless task it’s been for the past several hundred centuries. In fact, successfully getting your digs clean in the future might depend on how well coordinated you are…and a handful of extra laundry change.
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Introducing the “arcade washing machine” by Lee Wei Chen, a Taiwanese graduate student at Kingston University, London.
Chen’s creation combines a traditional standup arcade game with a front-loading coin-operated washing machine, adding both fun and a real challenge to the menial task of washing clothes.
What used to be as easy as the push of a button now requires manipulating a steering wheel, a gear shifter and two buttons.
Chen, 27, came up with the idea after contemplating a more productive use for the “wasted but enjoyable time” he spent playing video games. After realizing the skills he had acquired in the virtual world were impractical in real life, he embarked on a quest to make them useful.
By linking the circuitry of the two devices, the washing cycle is dependent on the user’s gaming skills. Thus, if the gamer sucks at video games, he or she will have to insert more coins in order to complete the cycle.
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This may not be the most ingenious machine ever created, but I dare think it’ll be as hard any longer for wives to get their husbands and the kids off the sofa to lend a hand in the laundry room.[/QUOTE]
Women no longer belong in the laundry room and kitchen......just the kitchen :D
Got to give him credit for thinking that up.
[quote=article]Chen, 27, came up with the idea after contemplating a more productive use for the “[b]wasted but enjoyable time[/b]” he spent playing video games.[/quote] That is not wasted my friend
The next version should come with Street Fighter or something, I'd do the washing then. Its so damn cool.
Brilliant, I must say.
[URL="http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2286"]In the future, everything is games.[/URL]
[quote]By linking the circuitry of the two devices, the washing cycle is dependent on the user’s gaming skills. Thus, if the gamer sucks at video games, he or she will have to insert more coins in order to complete the cycle.[/quote]
eh, unless it plays games I like I'd be better off wasting space in front of my PC
or better yet, link it to my PC so my shit washes faster as I slay more bodies
[quote] menial task of washing clothes.[/quote]
What?
This isn't the 1800s
[B]You put clothes in, you set the machine, and you do something else while you wait[/B]
[quote]After realizing the skills he had acquired in the virtual world were impractical in real life, he embarked on a quest to make them useful.[/quote]
Worried that you've spent far too much time on skills that are useless in the real world?
Invent entirely unnecessary devices that make use of those skills!
This looks like something out of a World of Tomorrow exhibit.
This is like one of those ridiculous inventions from the 50s that never caught on to any extent whatsoever.
No seriously could a single person tell me even one benefit of this monumentally worthless creation?
[QUOTE=Contag;33164591]No seriously could a single person tell me even one benefit of this monumentally worthless creation?[/QUOTE]
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Maybe stop being so closed minded.
Instead of spending 40 minutes at the laundromat peeling paint off of the seats you could be enjoying yourself?
Yes, you could take a book. Yes, you could take a PSP.
But imagine multiplayer on this shit. Forget netcafes or LANs; meet up with your mates at the laundromat, get your washing done and get some FRAGS.
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Maybe stop being so closed minded.
Instead of spending 40 minutes at the laundromat peeling paint off of the seats you could be enjoying yourself?
Yes, you could take a book. Yes, you could take a PSP.
But imagine multiplayer on this shit. Forget netcafes or LANs; meet up with your mates at the laundromat, get your washing done and get some FRAGS.[/QUOTE]
Except you are forgetting that this is not a modern gaming machine but merely a throwba-
*INSERT MORE COINS TO VIEW RESPONSE*
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My point is that integrating a superfluous and decades old input device to something which is designed and in widespread use because it is automatic and requires no input from the user is utterly absurd, especially when it performs neither of those functions better than separate systems.
I mean, yes, you could conceivably attach a touch screen to a toaster, which requires you to play a game of space invaders in order not to burn your toast. But why on earth would you [I]want[/I] to?
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[quote]a more productive use[/quote]
It's not like a washing machine requires manual input.
If this was a regular washing machine that allowed user input in order to maximize a number of metrics (power efficiency, use of water, time etc.), and upload their washing program so that others can make use of it, then perhaps it would have a point.
As it stands, it is productive as jerking off in order to make your oven continue to heat food.
This woulda been cool maybe in the late 90's but if you don't live under a rock chances are you have a device that also plays games.
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Maybe stop being so closed minded.
Instead of spending 40 minutes at the laundromat peeling paint off of the seats you could be enjoying yourself?
Yes, you could take a book. Yes, you could take a PSP.
But imagine multiplayer on this shit. Forget netcafes or LANs; meet up with your mates at the laundromat, get your washing done and get some FRAGS.[/QUOTE]
When I do laundry, I just put it in the washing machine/dryer and set my phone timer to when it finishes so I can do something else in the meantime. If anything, that's more productive than playing a game on my laundry machine.
Would have been better if there was a popular arcade game you could play instead. I'd play metal slug all day on a washing machine even if I had no clothes to wash.
Fuck, I left my laundry in the machine last night. Thank you, facepunch.
[QUOTE=Donut Hill;33164345]That is not wasted my friend
The next version should come with Street Fighter or something, I'd do the washing then. Its so damn cool.[/QUOTE]
But make it so the washing takes longer if you use a shoto character.
Why? Because fuck shotos.
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I love that source :v:
Cool, arcades are coming back.
Naturally, any washing machine/videogame combo has to involve a racing game. The potential for skidmark jokes alone demands it.
If you lose, it shits on your clothes.
or I could walk away and play a different game while I wait
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