Sure, your games are thrilling and all, but they don't exactly cause actual pain, do they? Well, that's all going to change thanks to the two twisted dreamers who started the company Mindwire, and their electroshock feedback device, the V5. That's right, next time you get fragged in
Unreal, sacked in
Madden, or robbed in
GTA -- you get shocked in real life. Just the sadistic thrill you've been after, right? The device works by splitting your controller input to the "brain" of the V5 and your console, then sends electric jolts via electrode pads on your skin. Right now the company has a model tested and working with the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PCs, though they appear to be making preparations for current gen consoles in the next iteration of the device. If you're content with the choices at hand, this self-torture can be yours for £99.99 (or around $201). Check the totally awesome video after the break to see the V5 in action.
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posted Mar 9th 2008 5:29PM
/WHY/?
Just... just... /why/?
The next step in natural selection. If you're stupid enough to buy it, you deserve the pain :)
THEY STOLE MY IDEA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUw9BJS06NI
Don't Tase me Bro!
Similar invention:
Brian Griffin: All right Peter, I've hooked you up to a chair where the right TV is tuned to Frasier and the left TV is tuned to Ricki Lake. If you so much as glance at the left TV, I'm giving you 10,000 volts.
Peter Griffin: I'll do it!
Niles Crane: Frasier,you're so corpulent that when you sit around the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa you sit AROUND the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa.
Peter Griffin: Wow, this really is the smartest show on TV!
Guy on Ricki Lake: Yo Ricki, she's my girlfriend, she's not supposed to be havin' no penis!
Peter Griffin: [Brian shocks Peter for looking at left TV] Aaaaaaaaaaagh!
Just like this
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF134-Game_System.gif
bring the PAIN
Think about it, paintball is more fun than laser tag for the simple reason that it hurts a little bit. It makes the whole game more intense. I think this would be fun. Besides, they don't really shock you the way most people think of it. Its basically a TENS device. They don't really hurt. It just makes your muscles tense up.
Yeah, if you could somehow enforce that everyone in a given game use this, it would probably have quite an effect on gameplay mechanics.
I enjoy playing paintball, but have you ever tried to get friends to play with you? Regardless it costs $50 where I live to go to NY Paintball, you come home with welts that sting for at least a week.
I'd perfer an electroshock controller and electroshock vest/pants with location based damage.
@ Flashpoint
I agree. Still outdoors, and when you take a hit, it still tingles (or if you want it really intense, it spasms).. I'd go for it.. Hopefully when the failure rate is super low.
"Well, that's all going to change"
This is about the 200th electic shock toy announced, and will change about as much as the "pain station" did
Finally Opus Dei gamers are going to be happy.
I am leery of any device that provides electric shock, since .1-.2 amps will almost always kill you. I'm sure they do a lot of testing, but I would hate to be that one in a million...
WHAT? .1 to .2 amps can kill you? Is that like right through the heart or what? My shaver charger is like .15 amps I think...
I believe it was 6 amps through the heart, according to mythbusters.
A wider range can kill you, but .1-.2 amperes causes "ventricular fibrillation of the heart", which is an "uncoordinated twitching of the wall's of the heart's ventricles", according to my energy conversion class (electrical engineering). I'm including a link that shows a chart for the physiological effects of various currents. It's not from my class, but it's essentially the same diagram.
http://pchem.scs.uiuc.edu/pchemlab/electric.htm
that's continuous current. this is like a tazer, in that it fills up a capacitor and shocks you like that. thousands of volts, thousandths of a second, thousandths of amps.
There's something SERIOUSLY messed up with this freaky thing.
BUT, I can see a potential application in fraternity hazing rituals...
Sweet! Can't wait for the waterboarding edition!
I think it's pretty damn cool. How about a stun gun that tazes you until you're no longer conscious on in-game death. Now that'd be intense.
They are going to get sued by PETA.
Y, no one said you have to strap it to your cat.. Hmm that could be fun thou..
Nah PETA doesnt care about humans
couldn't this be done by replacing the ruble in a controller with a transistor, some compactors, and a battery.
would be cooler with some intense rumble.
Now we just need something a little more powerful for explosions to really discourage people from whoring the planes/vehicles in something like Battlefield 2 and crashing them within 5 seconds...
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=156 [vgcats]
imagine this hooked up to dance dance revolution or guitar hero!
If I lose to you. You will be feeling even more pain!!!
If you buy this, you've already lost.
Teamkillers should get zapped with a cumulative jolt.
Wouldn't the proper term be Masochistic? Sadistic is is joy from causing others pain, so Masoschistic is enjoyment of recieving pain.
Fail. The Game.
So will this thing make my muscles ripped like those electric ab belts I see on t.v. ?
Wow. I actually want one.
Only your hands, Spanky.
This thing will probably hurt about as much as being snapped with a rubber band.
Just right for a Sim about death rows! Dead man walking!
@BatteryAcid
Woah?.. 6 amps.. I watched that episode and I believe it was 6 milliamps?.. or 60 milliamps?.. But surely not 6 amps.
What a stupid device