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” Sony has Filed a Patent Application for a System that Could Turn Bananas and Other Household Items into PlayStation Controllers”
There’s gotta be a great joke in there somewhere . . .
You’ll be risking infringement if you try to ape Sony’s banana patent.
That’s all I got right now…
Hmm, that has a certain a peel.
Hmmm . . . I’m wondering whether monkeys would be more inclined to play the game . . . or to eat the controller . . . (maybe play . . . until they get hungry?)
Sony should throw a handful into a monkey cage and see what happens . . .
The application was actually drafted by infinite monkeys typing randomly.
If you use the banana controller, it changes the PlayStation into a PureeStation.
You can tell I’m really scraping the bottom of the Donkey Kong barrel here.
I can neither confirm nor deny that any simians were hurt in the AI training program of hanging such controllers above a step ladder in a cage full of CAFC simians, under the watchful (and nurturing) gaze of fire-hose wielding Supreme Court Justices.
Sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind (at least per Nick Lowe).
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