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		<title>Someone Has Now Gamified Taking a Piss</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_70585" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/screen-shot-2012-11-16-at-9-06-56-am.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-70585" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-16 at 9.06.56 AM" alt="" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/screen-shot-2012-11-16-at-9-06-56-am.jpg?w=300" height="210" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">So, you're telling me... (Photo: Screengrab)</p></div>
<p>Gentlemen, have you been feeling a bit bored at the urinal lately? You know--you're a couple drinks in so it's time to tap a kidney, but you're not quite drunk enough that standing is a struggle. Perhaps you could use a little light entertainment, something that'll make you whistle while you wiz?</p>
<p>Well, good news. <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/captive-media/">Wired reports</a> that a company is working on a gaming system that works not via joystick or touchscreen, but rather by stream. You score by aiming your pee according to the demands of the game.<!--more--></p>
<p>Naturally, this is a play for ad revenue. Captive Media--as in captive audience--plans to sell spots to advertisers before (as visitors unzip) and after (as visitors zip) the game. The systems will go into public restrooms; think beer advertisements in the pub bathroom. Thus far, they've raised $700,000 in seed capital.</p>
<p>Nor will you get stuck playing the same game over and over. <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/captive-media/">Says <em>Wired</em></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are five <a href="http://www.captive-media.co.uk/test-games/">games</a> that pop up at random on the UES, including <em>On the Piste</em>, where you speed down a ski run trying to hit penguins; <em>Clever Dick</em>, a trivia game which uses the direction of your stream to pick an answer, and <em>Artsplash</em>, a coloring game which I can only imagine is akin to drawing in the snow.</p>
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<p>For those curious, here's an introductory video scored to a rousing techno beat. Please note the slightly sloshed Brit who says, "Yeah, that's like a man's dream," as though he were being given the map to El Dorado.</p>
<p>No word on when someone will introduce a competitive offering for the ladies.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_70585" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/screen-shot-2012-11-16-at-9-06-56-am.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-70585" title="Screen Shot 2012-11-16 at 9.06.56 AM" alt="" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/screen-shot-2012-11-16-at-9-06-56-am.jpg?w=300" height="210" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">So, you're telling me... (Photo: Screengrab)</p></div>
<p>Gentlemen, have you been feeling a bit bored at the urinal lately? You know--you're a couple drinks in so it's time to tap a kidney, but you're not quite drunk enough that standing is a struggle. Perhaps you could use a little light entertainment, something that'll make you whistle while you wiz?</p>
<p>Well, good news. <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/captive-media/">Wired reports</a> that a company is working on a gaming system that works not via joystick or touchscreen, but rather by stream. You score by aiming your pee according to the demands of the game.<!--more--></p>
<p>Naturally, this is a play for ad revenue. Captive Media--as in captive audience--plans to sell spots to advertisers before (as visitors unzip) and after (as visitors zip) the game. The systems will go into public restrooms; think beer advertisements in the pub bathroom. Thus far, they've raised $700,000 in seed capital.</p>
<p>Nor will you get stuck playing the same game over and over. <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/captive-media/">Says <em>Wired</em></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are five <a href="http://www.captive-media.co.uk/test-games/">games</a> that pop up at random on the UES, including <em>On the Piste</em>, where you speed down a ski run trying to hit penguins; <em>Clever Dick</em>, a trivia game which uses the direction of your stream to pick an answer, and <em>Artsplash</em>, a coloring game which I can only imagine is akin to drawing in the snow.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>For those curious, here's an introductory video scored to a rousing techno beat. Please note the slightly sloshed Brit who says, "Yeah, that's like a man's dream," as though he were being given the map to El Dorado.</p>
<p>No word on when someone will introduce a competitive offering for the ladies.</p>
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