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This is a Brilliant Thesis…

Master’s Student Demonstrates Thesis Project in Her Underwear
New York University student, Jennifer Chowdhury has developed for her thesis a new way in which technology can be used for the betterment of mankind :) Her master’s thesis project called Intimate Controllers is not explicitly sexual but you wouldn’t use it with your sibling either.

Intimate Controllers is a set of sensors embedded in underwear that direct the action on a video game. Rather than sit separately on the couch and jam fingers against small plastic buttons, players touch each other to control the game.
For her demo, Chowdhury made a video of herself and a partner playing Pong. He stands behind her with his hands near her shoulders, and she reaches back toward his hips. When he touches her left breast, the paddle moves to the left. The sensor in the right bra cup moves the Pong paddle to the right.

Lighthearted and playful, the invention nevertheless has a serious side. With it, Jennifer acknowledges the seductive nature of video games and the deleterious effect a passion for games can have on relationships. Yet “stop gaming” is hardly a solution.
(It’s like firemen. You can’t fall in love with a fireman and then ask or demand that he stop fighting fires, even if your intentions are good. You can’t fall in love with a gamer and expect him or her to give up gaming to spend more time with you.)
“Anything that gets a couple to spend more time with one another, or to experience each other in a new way, is good for a relationship,” she says. “If a couple plays well together, they will probably do other things well together as well.”

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