Archive for May, 2011
May 29, 2011 – 03:32 AM JEFF MITCHELL BOWMANVILLE — So here’s the deal: Take a ping-pong ball, a bunch of ordinary materials like wood, screws and elastic bands, and launch said ping-pong ball 25 metres. And you’ve got 75 minutes to do it. Sound easy? Think again. The creation of a functioning launcher is [...]
Manchester, UK – 16 th February 2011– Head First, the UK based advertising and design agency that were the brains behind the much-lauded Super Twario gameification of Twitter, is pleased to announce the imminent launch of Swing Pong, an audio based game of table tennis. Swing Pong frees Ping Pong from the confines of the [...]
FROM riding with David Cameron in The Beast to a game of table tennis in a London secondary school, then on to a state banquet hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, Barack Obama yesterday sought to underscore the monarch’s claim that America is Britain’s “most important ally”. Today, the US President begins the political [...]
For a lesson in how to get a class of about 40 middle school students to participate and behave during physical education class, look no further than Vaca Peña Middle School in Vacaville, where the introduction of pingpong has become a smash hit. The seventh-grade students are currently participating in a unit on the sport [...]
(05-16) 19:52 PDT — The basketball often has bounced the wrong way for the Warriors over the years, and the pingpong balls haven’t been much better. The Warriors, coming off their 16th non-playoff season in the last 17, today will be making their 20th appearance in the 27 years of the NBA lottery. Golden State [...]