TN Games' impact-generating FPS Vest goes on sale

Are you a hardcore gamer? No, seriously -- a hardcore gamer. If so, you should have no qualms throwing down $169 for TN Games' FPS Vest now that it's available for order. The entire bundle includes an "impact-generating" wearable, an air compressor, USB cable, power supply and copies of 3rd Space Incursion and Call of Duty 2 for PC. Just don't wander too far outside of your house with this thing on, alright?

[Via CNET]

[Matt Sullivan @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:29AM]

Hilarious video here: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/4243914.html?series=43

[Flashpoint @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:46AM]

THIS IS THE KIND OF FORCE FEEDBACK I WANT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUw9BJS06NI

[OneLove @ Feb 22nd 2008 12:28PM]

girls named "domino" rule!

[Timothy Sottek @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:34AM]

Great.

So now when the police enter my house, they'll see me wearing a "bulletproof," vest, holding a "pistol" at my television, and shouting obscenities at COD4's veteran difficulty.

Then I get shot for reals.

[Froggy @ Feb 22nd 2008 12:00PM]

No officer, I did not hit her. Those bruises are from the TN Games' impact-generating FPS Vest

[Shadowfox952 @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:36AM]

$169 and all I don't even get Call of Duty 4?
They didn't even wear Kevlar vests in WW2!

[milos valenta @ Mar 10th 2008 8:07AM]

you are stupid!!!

[HokeyPokey7 @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:40AM]

Curious... I find that a lot of my gamer friends are on the chunkier side of life with big round bellies. I wonder if this is stretchable or inflatable.

[Wyze @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:41AM]

dude...I dont know....I can see hardcore gamers maybe getting into this...but the reality is some fat guy in a wife beater will squeeze his ass in one with nothing else on but some boxers sitting on the couch playing ( insert game here)....not a good look...and the helmet...looks like a subdural in the making.....

[Dan Davis @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:42AM]

...and the line between reality and fantasy gets blurred even further.


NOT!

[HokeyPokey7 @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:52AM]

Curious... I find that many of my gamer friends are on the chunkier side of life with big round bellies. I wonder if this thing is stretchable or inflatable?

[Hooterman @ Feb 22nd 2008 3:39PM]

Yeah, I've got this "friend" who is over-weight too... :\


We're on to you Hokey...

[Flashpoint @ Feb 22nd 2008 11:53AM]

Games won't be realistic until

#1 They take the Half Life style: no cutscenes, no voice, no character body

#2 they make a way that there are NO LOAD TIMES

#3 they produce a helmet that completely immerses the users eyes and ears

The closest I've been to REALISM GAMING is when I rode a gymbal gyroscopic flight simulator with the game G-loc in an amusement park.

That shit was off the hook. I would really spend $30,000 to get one of those in my home.

[shanoboy @ Feb 22nd 2008 1:42PM]

The closest I ever came to ultra realistic gaming was playing the virtual boy with headphones on!

[bo sneb @ Feb 22nd 2008 2:27PM]

i find the lack of a body in half life the opposite of realistic. if you look at your feet in real life, you see your arms, torso, legs, feet, and a shadow. in half life, you see nothing.

[Christen da Costa @ Feb 22nd 2008 12:21PM]

Wow...it would be nice if Engadget gave me credit. I sent them the story and they pulled it off Crave, which got the story from me.

http://www.gadgetreview.com/2008/02/fps-force-feedback-gaming-vest.html

[JackDebian @ Feb 22nd 2008 12:28PM]

But what about headshots?

It needs a helmet to really recreate the BOOM HEADSHOT! moments.

[kingu @ Feb 22nd 2008 12:52PM]

Finally something to go with my power glove and tin-foil hat.

[Ron @ Feb 22nd 2008 1:34PM]

Gsus, Go and play airsoft milsim instead!!! :)

[kherge @ Feb 22nd 2008 4:06PM]

Airsoft is for pansies. Try paintball instead!

[Jarhead2012 @ Feb 22nd 2008 4:03PM]

I 100%. "OMG, I just got shot in the head. OMG, I just got shot in the face AGAIN!!! RAWR " Boring. Airsoft is teh $hit.

[IvIcYrusIvI @ Feb 22nd 2008 2:49PM]

hmm BDSM online anyone? lol - its a whole new era

[NitroFrost @ Feb 22nd 2008 3:38PM]

This has been done before like with SEGA

[matt @ Mar 24th 2008 10:44AM]

can any one tell me how to get my fps impact vest working on half-life 2 death match please i cant get my hed round it ive down loaded every thing but it still wont work so if there is ani 1 out there who can help me msg me bak ASAP plz. MAT

[erli de padua @ Apr 16th 2008 8:03AM]

gostaria de saber como ser reprsentande de vendas de vossos produtos no Parana Brasil