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Sony Files Patent For PS3 Laughter Detection

Owen Good August 17, 2009 4:00 AM

Sony Computer Entertainment America filed a patent a couple months back, for a system using coffee mugs to play a video game. Now they’ve filed one to make your laughter into a controller.

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