Blood Sport (no, I am not talking about the Jean-Claude Van Damme film of the same name) is a new gaming system that’s all set to revolutionize the way we donate blood. While traditional blood donation methods can be ‘draining’ to say the least, the makers of Blood Sport have designed a fun process that involves playing video games. You’ll be so immersed in the game that you’ll hardly notice the blood being taken from you every time you lose a life.
Blood Sport is the brainchild of Canadian inventors Taran Chadha and Jamie Umpherson, who are well-known for gaming-related projects like Shoot the Banker, Surrogaid and Prank House. Now, with Blood Sport, they’re “taking the consequences of the gaming world and having them affect you in real life. So every time you get hit in the game, blood will be intravenously drawn from your arm.”
Their new idea, they say, is stupidly simple. “Nowadays, most video game controllers rumble when you get shot in the game,” they explained on their Kickstarter page, through which they’re trying to raise $250,000 CAD (US $222,700). “That rumbling means that an electrical signal is being sent to the controller to let you know you’ve been hit. All we’re doing is re-routing that same electrical signal and using it to turn on the blood collection system.”
So what that means to me is that you'd better get good at playing Blood Sport or you'll weaken and wither away quickly. I can see different versions of the game popping up, can't you? How about Team Blood Sport where, for instance, a Type AB team is pitted against the Type O negatives. Then later the Regional, Provincial/State and National Blood Sport Championships...maybe even, you know...that international body of games held every four years whose name we are not supposed to use without their permission...but their logo is five linked circles. You know the one...
Don't get me started on possible team uniforms, either...
See ya, eh!
Bob
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