It’s so common it’s a cliche: game geeks’ girlfriends and wives never get any action. For some ridiculous reason, video games are all too frequently more compelling to this dork set of society than their partner’s jubblies. JennyLC Chowdhury, an Interactive Telecommunications grad student at NYU, has created a possible solution to this problem with what she calls, “Intimate Controllers”: game controllers built into underwear, so that games are played through players physically touching one another.

Says Chowdhury,

I made a pong controller that was made from a bra. The mapping for the controller was simple - touching the left breast made the pong paddle go left and the right breast made the paddle go right….I wanted to create a type of video game play that would center around a couple’s intimacy and where two people would touch each other in order to play the game.

It’s a neat idea, but if you’re a button masher, she’d better be into rough sex.

Intimate Controllers [jennylc.com]