Jan 9 2009Oooooh, Gamey: The Joystick Coat Rack
HangUP Arcade Coat Hooks by Surface Tension are made out of real arcade joysticks and buttons and conveniently store your coat or jacket up and out of bong's way.
Coming sometime early this year, they'll be available in 3UP and 4UP versions. You can pick your own joystick ball colors too. The standard models will ship in black walnut wood, but they're happy to take custom orders for other materials too.
Alternatively, go apeshit at the arcade and rip off a joystick and a couple buttons. Then, screw those bitches to a piece of plywood, and presto: junk. But not in your trunk -- in your foyer. Was that too sexy?
arcade joystick coat hangers: control your clutter [technabob]
Thanks to Riki Kiki Taco, who doesn't need a coat rack because she only wears win.
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Reader Comments
1. nikeforces - January 9, 2009 10:24 AM
chic walks in a house with that and says. "Damn My friends were right"
2. first - January 9, 2009 10:24 AM
First!
3. first - January 9, 2009 10:24 AM
darn!
4. Big boy - January 9, 2009 10:25 AM
Barney Loves you.
5. Junk Hat - January 9, 2009 10:32 AM
I'm all for simple designs, but they really could've done SOMETHING to jazz it up a bit. I could make this in about 5 minutes with a saw, a plank of wood, and your penis up Moose Knuckle's brown star.
6. SiGee - January 9, 2009 10:36 AM
boring...
7. PLEEEZE! - January 9, 2009 10:42 AM
If I had seen this without and explanation (or that three and four up button--which seems to have no function) I would have thought it a simple coat rack. How's about using interesting joysticks like from afterburner.
8. Spam Artist - January 9, 2009 10:49 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is a remake of a scene in the movie Tender Dracula where the blonde french actress with a huge perm sits down on a bench next to an unfortunate person, and describes her entire life in vivid multi-hour long detail.
She tells of her mother relating all life as a container of sugary food, and of something jumping up and biting her in Vietnam.
9. Daisy - January 9, 2009 11:07 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was designing a video game and ended up inside the operating system of the computer, he ended up doing battle with the various denizens that live there and found data that was damaging to the company.
When he woke up Baja apologized for using hallucinogenic mushrooms in the cheese bacon log she made him for dinner. Not because of Max's wild dream , but because he fed the leftovers to the cat, and it shit all over the dining room and dug holes in the rug trying to cover it up.
10. known - January 9, 2009 11:11 AM
It's just missing a quarter slot for credits - so you can charge your friends for hanging their garments on that thing
#5: hehehe
11. crazygeek - January 9, 2009 11:52 AM
Get out my hallway you morons! It is not a videogame!
12. Thumperchica - January 9, 2009 12:02 PM
Would be great if the button relaeased all of the knobs and dropped everyone's coat to the floor...
13. DeeplyTroubled - January 9, 2009 3:23 PM
This is retarded. I've seen batter creativity and design coming out of 7th grade shop classes - for special kids.
14. twellve - January 9, 2009 5:34 PM
not impressed. 'aired' 5 days ago.
http://www.switched.com/2009/01/04/joystick-coat-hangers/
15. NekoNeko - January 10, 2009 7:06 AM
@ 7: That was my first thought as well. I thought it looked like the average half-arsed wood shop coat rack. If they're going to do that, then why not go the extra mile & make the wood panel look like the joystick panel from an arcade? It'd be way more awesome than this forgettable mess.
16. Dr. Death - January 11, 2009 2:34 AM
i have something like that
its my arcade machine i built a couple weeks ago i got bored of it surprisingly quickly
17. mr late nite - January 30, 2009 10:39 AM
manr that shit lame
18. mr late nite - January 30, 2009 10:39 AM
manr that shit lame
19. mr late nite - January 30, 2009 10:39 AM
manr that shit lame
20. mr late nite - January 30, 2009 10:39 AM
manr that shit lame