Pong Table at NYC's MOMA Shines Retro Gaming Light on the Future

Moritz Waldemyer isn't a lighting designer. He's a designer of fashion, furniture and technology who just happens to have a fetish for light, particularly LEDs. He embedded them into a Swarovski crystal chandelier and coded them to display text messages in his Lolita Chandelier. He stitched them into the "Vegas jacket" stage costumes he designed for treadmill rockers Ok Go. He's also used them to design classic games into furniture.

New York's Museum of Modern Art recently showcased Waldemyer's Pong Table as part of its Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition. The table contains an array of 2400 LEDs and two track pads seamlessly built into its Corian surface. Players run their fingers along the track pad to control the paddles. When the piece is turned off, the game vanishes and the table reverts to a somewhat generic, minimalist piece of high end design. Beautiful but better with the magic on.

Mortiz' retro-futurist gaming surface is part of a collection of three interactive Corian tables that includes a roulette table and a mirror, each constructed with LEDs. The collection is called Electric Kid.

Unfortunately, the tables aren't being mass produced, so unless your uber rich, you'll have to check them out at a museum.

[MOMA via Uber Review]