You're In Control (Urine Control)

The original urinal-video game system! The You're In Control system uses computation to enhance the act of urination. Sensors in the back of a urinal detect the position of impact of a stream of urine, enabling the user to play interactive games on a screen mounted above the urinal.

While urination fulfills a basic bodily function, it is also an activity rich with social significance. Along with the refreshing release it provides, the act of micturition satisfies a primal urge to mark our territory. For women who visit the bathroom in groups and chat in neighboring stalls, urination can be a bonding ritual. For men who write their names in the snow, extinguish cigarettes, or congregate around lampposts to urinate, urination can be a test of skill and a way of asserting their masculinity.

Flush the urinal to playYou're a Nation, and drown political opposition as they campaign in key swing states.

This is the original video Monzy and I made in 2002, as my final project for Neil Gershenfeld's class "How To Make Almost Anything" at the MIT Media Lab. Read more about it at http://www.hayesraffle.com.

Technology is patented.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• toilet
• urinal
• video
• game
• potty
• humor
• invention
• inventor
• mit
• medialab
• hayes
• raffle

[karlozRAWR]

OMG, I want this at my bathroom LOL

[keela456]

lol yeah the game softwear will probly be fried I WANNA PLAY SO MUCH imagine if u get into the game so much u dont think its working but ur actually peeing on some1 else

[MNBluestater]

Too funny. Wait, how much public money went into the design and testing....

[destinws2]

Nice

[Angultra]

this could only end in pee going all over the place as people try to hit the targets, lol

[gvjuiceman1]

Grats on wasting your money.

[Flogakid]

Absolutely Awsome. I would be so happy to see one of these at a public restroom.