Sodder a motion sensor and a D cell battery to a clothes pin or sadomasochist nipple clip. Pin it to the shirt of any amenable fat girl. Slap her belly and use the resulting gelatinous undulations of her engorged digestive sack to control a video game character.

Is this the next controlling innovation we can expect from Nintendo? Of course not. Never the less, Haiyan Zhang has created a controller that can do just that (amongst other amazing feats!) and called it Control Freaks. It looks a hecka fun.

As he describes it, "Control Freaks are devices that attach to everyday objects, turning them into interactive game play objects. When the Control Freak attaches to a host object, its movement, vibration or sound, can be translated into control functionality for a game. The situation, location and behavior of the host, are all enablers for opportunistic play experience. The Control Freak device therefore enables any object in any situation to become the focus of play adventure."

The site shows Haiyan and compatriots controlling Pong with a microwave door and playing a homebrew game by swiveling an office chair. Thanks, Chilly!

Control Freaks [Haiyan Zhang]

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