Sep 21 2009I Can't Even See The Puck: Trippy Air Hockey
This is video of a Japanese air hockey table (possibly manufactured by Sega) that's designed to give game participants seizures. I couldn't even see the puck most of the time. And not just because I was rolling around on the floor clutching my eyes, but I was. Your mom keeps sending nudey pics!
Hit the jump for two more videos of the table, the first of which has a bunch of fake pucks on the table the whole time, and the second demonstrating the table's variable goal size capabilities.
Thanks to Kevin, who has never lost a game of air hockey in his life because he lets his gun peak out of his jeans a little whenever he plays.
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Reader Comments
1. Bridgette - September 21, 2009 11:29 AM
I want to play!!!
2. Mike - September 21, 2009 11:30 AM
First... but why didn't Canada come up with this first? C'mon hockey people!!
3. naas - September 21, 2009 11:35 AM
NICE!!! A room with this and a space foosball machine = awesome
That's cool though
4. naas - September 21, 2009 11:36 AM
@2 once again http://www.sneeko.net/images/gifs1/title-nindoze.gif
5. Frosty - September 21, 2009 11:46 AM
i see boobies in the last video! :D
6. STOMPY - September 21, 2009 11:51 AM
I'd totally hit that, and by hit I mean drinking, and by I'd totally I mean I am, and by that I mean at work.... or at least I wish I was....
7. Johnny B - September 21, 2009 11:52 AM
Pretty cool, but not as cool as this $200,000 pool table.
http://vimeo.com/6646460
I want this billiards table (and I would switch the picture shown on the table in the video, with a picture of Bea Arthur.... NAKED.... giggity giggity)
8. naas - September 21, 2009 12:00 PM
@Johnny B that's not the table, it's a motion sensor light above the pool table using it's dimensions as a frame & it's surface as a screen. There's an 'eye' on it that detects movement & plays the video accordingly to the motion realtime.
I've seen a few of these in vegas before advertising alcohol & prostitution at the entrances of casino's & a few high end nightclubs.
9. Johnny B - September 21, 2009 12:03 PM
@8
I read that about the overhead projection part.
I realized its not EXACTLY the same thing, but they are somewhat similar.
The air hockey table is a lot trippier.
10. Johnny B - September 21, 2009 12:05 PM
"Its just like that movie I saw about that drug trip when I was on that drug trip."
11. naas - September 21, 2009 12:08 PM
yeah I didn't watch the vid all the way to the end where they showed it before typing that before, I see now they displayed it.
I don't think the pool tables' surface has anything to do with what's happening though, this camera is very accurate with sensory motion in the megapixel range. A spider could walk across that table & the camera would pick that motion of to the detail of it's 8 legs
12. Johnny B - September 21, 2009 12:17 PM
Its amazing how technology increases exponentially.
I think eventually humans will become extinct becuase of the exponential rise of techonology.
13. April - September 21, 2009 12:41 PM
These air hockey tables I would love to have. Just wouldn't be able to pay the $$$$ amount for them right now.
14. naas - September 21, 2009 12:45 PM
@12 we're bound to sooner or later
15. STOMPY - September 21, 2009 12:48 PM
@JB and naas
Technology is evolving while we aren't.... get your plasma gernades and EM bombs ready... were gonna nead them....
16. Pat - September 21, 2009 1:17 PM
Yeah, but how many points do I get if I break the table.
17. Mr. cow - September 21, 2009 1:28 PM
Moo
18. naas - September 21, 2009 1:49 PM
@STOMPY I'm not worried, I can easily take control of machines trying to kill me & turn them on themselves
19. Ham Bone - September 21, 2009 3:20 PM
just like the time a rainbow raped me in the eyeball ... and thats why i no longer go to gay pride rallies drunk on 151 and gold shlager
20. GoSS Jerk now sterilized for your pleasure - September 21, 2009 3:24 PM
i hate my firewall, not only cant i see the pucks, i cant see sht
21. Jaded Icon - September 22, 2009 7:15 AM
@ 20
I'm right there with you my websense brother....
@ 19
Was the "rainbow's" name Steve? Yeah, I hate that guy.
22. Johnny B - September 22, 2009 8:29 AM
@3
One Crazy Foosball Table as per your request
http://gizmodo.com/5364852/space-foosball-table-looks-ready-for-star+trek
23. rednexaal - February 3, 2010 3:21 PM
they totally skipped goal number 8!
24. Air Hockey Tables - September 28, 2010 4:22 AM
I prefer air hockey to pool.