Whether you're doing it to amuse your kids or yourself and your roomates, this simple hack turns your dining room table into a ping pong table with the help of a dowel rod and some juice containers.

The smart robot means you can play Ping Pong at any time and anywhere with a ping pong table. You can use it to program specific shots, simulate particular games, and generally work on your abilities.

Hyper Ping-Pong involves a bat with motion sensors and a speaker built into it, forcing gamers to rely on just the sound of the ball bouncing around the 'table' to play.

Pong steps out from the screen and into a coffee table with a playable mechanical version of the famous arcade game.

Father and son duo Darrick and Ben Battaglia have a fresh take on Ping-Pong; and they hope their hands-on invention, 2Pong, will appeal to even table tennis traditionalists.