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came across it on FB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Ozz6_pdMI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Huh. What a conicidinc.
Only yesterday, I went to a museum with my sister's family and played the original Pong with my niece and nephew. Well, original, an emulation of the original, but with twisty knobs for operation and original graphics.

I haven't seen this myself and I must suspect it's probably the kind of thing they might get in Berlin, which is so hip and trendy, the clerks in the bakery don't even speak German anymore in some parts of the city, only English.
On the other hand, Berlin is notoriously broke, so unless somebody sponsored that, I can't really imagine they could have sprung for it.
If it's real, of course, could all be a big hoax. Or some one-off marketing effort by some company, a single traffic light like that. Though I know how marketing efforts over here usually go, there'd have to be a sixteen foot billboard announcing this cool toy, a company rep in suit and tie and a security guard next to it, too. So I suspect either a hoax, or some municipality genuinely trying out something new.

And while I like the idea, I see every day how the little yellow or blue boxes with the button for requesting a pedestrian crossing get treated. These days, they're either made of steel and rubber and so solid, they appear practically bulletproof, or are plastic so cheap, "disposable" is the appropriate description. No fancy touch screen like that would last more than a week in such a location. Definitely no longer than the weekend.

Didn't convince me. Watch the left hand side of the yellow box, the black margin of the screen overlaps it a few times. Could be just a poor video too, but neither did a see any user interface whereby someone could "log in."

Sisyphus wrote:Didn't convince me. Watch the left hand side of the yellow box, the black margin of the screen overlaps it a few times. Could be just a poor video too, but neither did a see any user interface whereby someone could "log in."

http://streetpong.info/#about" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Real but "a project" and not a all a common urban device, if I read correctly (ok I didn't read)

"The StreetPong story started with the visualisation of a project idea which was intended as a course achivement for a class Sandro Engel and Holger Michel were taking at the HAWK Hildesheim (urban interactions with Prof. Wölfer). After the video had gained rapidly in popularity on the Internet and traditional media the game is now being installed at a pedestrian traffic light in Hildesheim. For the technical realization Amelie Künzler and That-Khoa Ton were taken on board. In cooperation with SWARCO, the city of Hildesheim and the HAWK Hildesheim a prototype is currently developed. "

Es ist vorteilhaft, da mit dem Daumen in den Arsch.

guitargeek wrote:Es ist vorteilhaft, da mit dem Daumen in den Arsch.

You're missing a verb.

Brilliant idea! for hoodlums. Just wait for an appropriate looking mark to become engrossed in a game then... WHAMMO!

DerGolgo wrote:

guitargeek wrote:Es ist vorteilhaft, da mit dem Daumen in den Arsch.

You're missing a verb.

you can's have a thumb just being in the ass without having a verb to place it there?

MATPOC wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:

guitargeek wrote:Es ist vorteilhaft, da mit dem Daumen in den Arsch.

You're missing a verb.

you can's have a thumb just being in the ass without having a verb to place it there?

Ah, now, if rather than missing a verb he just mixed up and put an -n where he should have put an -m, while still not gramatically correct, it would make sense them. "in dem" can be translated as "inside of", while "in den" means "into", in the kind of syntactic structure that requires a verb.