{"id":4162,"date":"2013-03-27T12:53:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:58:52","slug":"centipeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/27\/centipeed\/","title":{"rendered":"To turn left, pee left \u2026 to turn right, pee right."},"content":{"rendered":"

from U.S. News & World Report<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Minor League Baseball Team to Debut Urinal Video Games<\/h1>\n

Games feature “intuitive controls,” according to the company<\/em><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0JASON KOEBLER<\/a><\/p>\n

A minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania will become the first professional sports franchise to offer urine-controlled video games in its restrooms when the season starts in April.<\/p>\n

[PHOTOS:<\/strong>\u00a0Baseball Spring Training 2013<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley IronPigs will debut the “Urinal Gaming System” in its men’s bathrooms\u2014the custom urinals feature a “pee controlled” video screen that will entertain fans as they use the restroom.<\/p>\n

The system is designed by a British company called Captive Media\u2014in a demo for the urinal, the company shows a snowboarding slalom game in which the character is controlled by where the player pees.<\/p>\n

“To turn left, pee left \u2026 to turn right, pee right,” the video says. At the end of the game (an average of about 55 seconds, according to the company’s research), players will get a code to put their score on a leader board.<\/p>\n

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from U.S. News & World Report Minor League Baseball Team to Debut Urinal Video Games Games feature “intuitive controls,” according to the company By\u00a0JASON KOEBLER A minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania will become the first professional sports franchise to offer urine-controlled video games in its restrooms when the season starts in April. [PHOTOS:\u00a0Baseball Spring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}