Poll of the Day > Sony's latest PS5 controller patent is a literal banana

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Mead
03/05/21 11:20:19 AM
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Not a banana shaped controller. A literal banana.

https://www.polygon.com/2021/3/3/22311352/playstation-patents-banana-controller-sony-weird

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shadowsword87
03/05/21 11:24:24 AM
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Patents are dumb.
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Mead
03/05/21 11:27:22 AM
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shadowsword87 posted...
Patents are dumb.

but now you cant steal their idea for a banana

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Jen0125
03/05/21 11:28:05 AM
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Their idea isn't the banana. They're trying to patent the idea of being able to turn any object into a controller.

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shadowsword87
03/05/21 11:34:50 AM
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https://i.imgur.com/rG7RUoQ.png
Sure looks nana-shapped Jen.
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Jen0125
03/05/21 11:38:20 AM
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Read the article >=[

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shadowsword87
03/05/21 11:39:52 AM
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I'm illiterate, please be considerate Jen.
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argonautweakend
03/05/21 11:41:30 AM
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Jen0125 posted...
Read the article >=[
The other day somebody on reddit posted about a snowball fight in the Civil War, but the thumbnail to the wikipedia article was of a snowball fight in 1890s Europe. I posted pointing that out, while the article was accurate about the Civil War, the thumbnail was about a separate part of the article and not a photo of the Civil War snowball fight.

I had 3 people ask me "whoa bro how did you know thats a snowball fight from 1890s europe?"

I, uh, read the caption to the photo included in the link posted by the OP.
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Jen0125
03/05/21 11:44:47 AM
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argonautweakend posted...
The other day somebody on reddit posted about a snowball fight in the Civil War, but the thumbnail to the wikipedia article was of a snowball fight in 1890s Europe. I posted pointing that out, while the article was accurate about the Civil War, the thumbnail was about a separate part of the article and not a photo of the Civil War snowball fight.

I had 3 people ask me "whoa bro how did you know thats a snowball fight from 1890s europe?"

I, uh, read the caption to the photo included in the link posted by the OP.

Lmaoo no one reads the articles anymore

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FrozenBananas
03/05/21 11:52:12 AM
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They just use a banana as an example. The plan is to turn any object into a virtual controller with virtual buttons

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argonautweakend
03/05/21 11:53:23 AM
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FrozenBananas posted...
They just use a banana as an example. The plan is to turn any object into a virtual controller with virtual buttons

Where are you getting this information from?
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Jen0125
03/05/21 12:05:45 PM
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I don't think they will obtain this patent. It seems too broad.

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adjl
03/05/21 12:13:46 PM
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As hilarious as this is, the underlying idea sounds pretty nifty.

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Mead
03/05/21 12:20:33 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
Their idea isn't the banana. They're trying to patent the idea of being able to turn any object into a controller.

Banana is their chosen example

They want controller banana

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LeetCheet
03/05/21 12:20:43 PM
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Anyone remember the original PS3 controller?

The Space Banana/Boomerang controller lmao
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Mead
03/05/21 12:22:43 PM
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LeetCheet posted...
Anyone remember the original PS3 controller?

The Space Banana/Boomerang controller lmao

yeah we remember the other thing that is literally discussed and has an image in the article linked

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Jen0125
03/05/21 12:28:31 PM
#17:


Mead posted...
Banana is their chosen example

They want controller banana

They want controller EVERYTHING

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keyblader1985
03/05/21 12:34:40 PM
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Again?

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Blightzkrieg
03/05/21 12:50:15 PM
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They're just trying to shit on Nintendo and stop whatever the next Nintendo console controller is

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LeetCheet
03/05/21 12:55:46 PM
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Mead posted...
LeetCheet posted...
Anyone remember the original PS3 controller?

The Space Banana/Boomerang controller lmao

yeah we remember the other thing that is literally discussed and has an image in the article linked


Oh. I guess I should've checked that link before I posted.

Oh well...
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JigsawTDC
03/05/21 12:57:19 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
They're just trying to shit on Nintendo and stop whatever the next Nintendo console controller is

Yeah this comes across as a direct attack against Nintendo to me
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ZeldaMutant
03/05/21 1:03:39 PM
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It would be desirable if a user could

How can you patent an idea that might be nice?

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Jen0125
03/05/21 1:26:47 PM
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ZeldaMutant posted...
How can you patent an idea that might be nice?

Right? It's way too broad and undefined.

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Mead
03/05/21 1:42:26 PM
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LeetCheet posted...
Oh. I guess I should've checked that link before I posted.

Oh well...

lol now I feel bad for being an ass to your post, its no biggie and that controller was ridiculous

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Mead
03/05/21 1:44:16 PM
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ZeldaMutant posted...
How can you patent an idea that might be nice?

you find out who at the patent office makes the final decision and you manufacture a social scenario that you can use to blackmail them

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