Gaming Lap Board with Integrated Vibration and Lighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic gaming can be detrimental to a gamer's comfort and posture, especially during extended play, as existing solutions fail to provide adequate support for hands and forearms and are often not portable or affordable.
Innovation Solution
An electronic gaming lap board with a padded top surface, hinged segments for tilting, and integrated gaming experience enhancement devices such as LED light strips, speakers, microphones, vibration devices, and a wireless communications module, designed to support gamers' forearms and elbows while allowing adjustable positioning and connectivity to gaming devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If advanced gaming feature chairs and furnishings are used to provide gaming enhancements, then gaming experience is improved, but cost becomes prohibitively expensive and portability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming enhancement features are segmented from expensive fixed furniture and integrated into a portable lap board device, allowing the functionality to be separated from the costly chair/furnishing infrastructure
Solution Approach 2:
The lap board integrates multiple gaming enhancement functions (vibration, lighting, audio) into a single universal device that can be used across different gaming platforms and locations, eliminating the need for specialized expensive furniture
2Adaptability or versatility
If advanced gaming feature chairs and furnishings are used to provide gaming enhancements, then gaming experience is improved, but portability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming enhancement features are segmented from fixed furniture into a portable lap board that can be easily transported and set up in different locations
Solution Approach 2:
The solution transitions from horizontal space-consuming furniture to a compact portable device that can be stored and transported in a different dimensional space
3Ease of operation
If gamers rest their controller or mobile device in their lap and slouch, then portability is maintained, but comfort and posture deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The lap board acts as an intermediary device between the gamer's lap and the controller, providing ergonomic support and proper positioning while maintaining the portability of using a lap-based setup
Solution Approach 2:
The hinged first segment allows adjustment of the controller support angle, enabling the gamer to change the positioning parameters to achieve ergonomic posture while maintaining portability
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The lap board enhances gamer comfort and posture by providing supportive and adjustable positioning, immersive gaming experiences through lighting, sound, and vibration, while enabling wireless connectivity and portability.
Implementation Method 1
a vibration device configured to impart a vibratory signal to the user's legs and forearms while engaged with the gaming environment
Implementation Method 2
at least one light emitting diode (LED) light strip disposed along a lateral side edge of the rectangular shaped board
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic gaming lap board provides a support rest for a gamer's elbows and forearms while operating a controller during play in a gaming environment. The electronic gaming lap board facilitates the maintenance of good posture while the gamer is engaged with the gaming environment. One or more gaming enhancement devices may be carried by the electronic gaming lap board, including acoustic, vibratory, and illumination devices. A communications module may electrically connect the one or more gaming enhancement devices to one or more of a game console, mobile computing device, cellular phone, or tablet device. The communications module may also provide a broadband wireless hotspot for connection of the game console or mobile computing device to a computer network.