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Congratulations, Mrs. Grimm! Is it … a Cyberdemon?
Programmer Foone Turing has taken the “Will it run Condemn? “Challenge to a whole new level by transforming an ordinary pregnancy test (yes, you heard that right) into a playable mini console for the influential 1993 video game. You can even play Rick Astley’s” Never Gonna Give You Up “video (no audio) if you’re in the mood for an internet meme that’s past its prime.
“Yesterday, I got a lot of retweets and reddit posts and so forth for playing Doom on a pregnancy test,” wrote Turing (whose last name appropriately refers to the test required to measure the artificial intelligence of a machine). “But as I explained then, it wasn’t really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played, not an interactive game. Well now it is. It is. Pregnancy test Condemn! “
Of course, a standard pregnancy test is only good for confirming conception, so Turing only ended up using the gutted shell of the object. You could say that the pregnancy test was (and forgive us for this pathetic pun) infused with electronic materials.
“To clarify what I am doing here: this is a replacement display AND a replacement microcontroller. I am not using any original testers other than the shell,” wrote the programmer.
Still, if healthcare manufacturers (Alere, Quidel, Procter & Gamble, etc.) started adding video game screens to their own pregnancy tests, they would likely see sales skyrocket. All we’re saying is that the next-gen portable console may not be from Nintendo. We just hope it doesn’t get activated by urine …
To see more everyday devices that have adapted to fit Condemn, check out It Runs Doom! Tumblr.
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