Hiroshi Ishii and his group at the MIT Media Lab took a ping pong table and placed a projector above it, and on the ping pong table they projected an image of water with fish swimming in it.

External links The Dot Eaters entry on Al Alcorn, PONG and Atari short interview about his early involvement with Steve Jobs and Apple Video interview with Al posted on March 10 2008 discussing the origins of Pong and more.

During the Cold War, ping pong diplomacy helped revive official relations between China and the United States.

Supplying an abundance of pictures of rats with tumors the size of ping pong balls, Séralini certainly captured the public s attention.

Atari Inc. simply did not have the cash flow to complete the system quickly, given that sales of their own Pong systems were cooling.

And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play Pong, a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

And when you touch it, you have to really push very hard to move that anvil across the screen, and yet you touch the ping pong ball very lightly and it just scoots across the screen.

Stella was still not ready for production, but it was clear that it needed to be before there were a number of me too products filling up the market which had happened after they released Pong .

When Mao Zedong purged his most senior Party boss, Liu Shaoqi, during the Cultural Revolution, Liu s wife was paraded through the streets wearing ping pong balls around her neck as a symbol of wicked decadence and extravagance.

Now, imagine a program where some of those objects are physically heavy and some are light one is an anvil on a fuzzy rug and the other one is a ping pong ball on a sheet of glass.

From ping pong diplomacy with China to the united German Olympic team that competed in 1990 before actual reunification, sport has prefigured political developments, and politicians everywhere have seized on the importance of the World Cup. Football success has become part of countries soft power.