These days they run some kind of busybox on any smart device, so technically any smart device could run doom.

That’s true, but I don’t think it’s the same to shove in attiny/arduino/whatever in place of original motherboard/cpu and building your own ‘doom-machine’ with off-the shelf parts, specially if you replace/recreate user interface too. The masturbator on the post link is obviously a different thing, even if it’s using a separate hardware to actually run doom there’s some hacking involved to get the toy to ‘fire’ based on game events, but even then the toy itself doesn’t run doom.

The better, but less clickbaity, title would be ‘I hacked my sex toy to respond into game events’ or something like that. And that on itself is a interesting enough topic to go with, regardless if it runs doom or not. And as a side note, I bet there’s people who would pay actual money to get a hold of that kind of gadget. Actually, I’m surprised if there isn’t any on the market already which would tap into force feedback commands from directX or something to provide ‘haptic feedback’ with a toy like this.

How is pregnancy test running doom if there’s nothing else but the plastic casing remaining of it and the ‘running doom’ part doesn’t have a single part from the original hardware? On this case it’s at least using the original display and buttons (I assume) while keeping the original hardware in place for ‘kill indicator’, but that toy itself isn’t running doom either.

I dont keep any gates, but if it’s enough that a case remains from the original hardware you can get anything bigger than your fist to run doom by ripping the guts of original out and replacing it with a raspbery pi. And in that case the only ‘hardware hacking’ is the hot glue keeping the thing together.

The original challenge is to get doom running on random devices with their own hardware. If that wasn’t the case I could just duct tape a laptop to a stick and claim that the stick is running doom.

Didn’t read this article, but the pregnancy test doom was “just” a microcontroller with oled display shoehorned inside pregnancy test case. So, if that counts then you could make a rock or concrete slab to play doom.

Bare feet are a bit clickbaity on the headline. That alone doesn’t mean much, but when it happens on a area where you should have full protective gear at the (supposed to be) sterile part of the manufacturing it’s of course a big deal. But it would be equally big deal if you just stroll there in your jeans and t-shirt with boots you stepped on a dog shit on your way to work. And even then it’s not even close of being the biggest issue on manufacturing where they constantly ignored all of the safety protocols, including ignoring test results which told them that the product is faulty.

In EU no one individual needs to sue them. The what-ever-the-office-might-be-responsible at EU burecracy will just send them an nicely worded letter that says “play by the book or we’ll give you fine big enough to bankrupt you no matter how much money you think you have”. The fine is based on company revenue (or sales, I don’t remember what it spesifically was) and there’s no way you’ll weasel yourself out of that no matter how many american lawyers you can hire. The same folks forced Apple to adapt usb-c, so good luck Spez if you try to challenge that.