Ping pong has made a comeback in the past half decade or so with a bunch of table tennis ‘bars’ popping up around the country. But who said this is a young man’s sport?
A giant McDonald's video billboard in Stockholm, Sweden is hosting a game of pong that just about anybody with a smart phone can join in, without having to download any new software.
Instead, potential players use their smart phone to log on to a website associated with the promotion. After the phone's geo-location device confirms you are close enough to the billboard, the phone's touch screen can
In America, we play ping pong, usually hunched over the table in some basement rec room. In the rest of the world, they play table tennis, sometimes in front of large, cheering crowds.
If you want to see an example of the difference between the two games, check out this mind-bending shot by Swedish professional Mattias Oversjo.
It's so amazing, you get to see it three times.