The Mindwire V5 turns gaming into pure electroshock torture

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.

[Via Coolest Gadgets]

[ammi @ Mar 9th 2008 5:34PM]

/WHY/?

Just... just... /why/?

[Raheem @ Mar 9th 2008 6:33PM]

The next step in natural selection. If you're stupid enough to buy it, you deserve the pain :)

[Flashpoint @ Mar 9th 2008 6:52PM]

THEY STOLE MY IDEA.

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

[Seoultrain @ Mar 9th 2008 5:50PM]

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!

[Drew @ Mar 9th 2008 5:50PM]

Don't Tase me Bro!

[Dave @ Mar 9th 2008 5:51PM]

Just like this

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF134-Game_System.gif

[RJRibeira @ Mar 9th 2008 5:52PM]

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.

[tiuk @ Mar 9th 2008 6:49PM]

Yeah, if you could somehow enforce that everyone in a given game use this, it would probably have quite an effect on gameplay mechanics.

[Flashpoint @ Mar 9th 2008 6:56PM]

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.

[KazSur @ Mar 10th 2008 12:06PM]

@ 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.

[matthewlikestoburn @ Mar 9th 2008 5:53PM]

bring the PAIN

[jdeuel @ Mar 9th 2008 6:00PM]

"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

[rento @ Mar 9th 2008 6:19PM]

Finally Opus Dei gamers are going to be happy.

[cayton @ Mar 9th 2008 6:47PM]

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...

[ethana2 @ Mar 9th 2008 7:20PM]

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...

[BatteryAcid @ Mar 9th 2008 7:57PM]

I believe it was 6 amps through the heart, according to mythbusters.

[cayton @ Mar 9th 2008 8:07PM]

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

[thethirdmoose @ Mar 9th 2008 11:42PM]

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.

[Thunderbuck @ Mar 9th 2008 7:13PM]

There's something SERIOUSLY messed up with this freaky thing.

BUT, I can see a potential application in fraternity hazing rituals...

[TIMMAH! @ Mar 9th 2008 7:21PM]

Sweet! Can't wait for the waterboarding edition!

[Reader @ Mar 9th 2008 7:26PM]

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.

[Rick @ Mar 9th 2008 7:52PM]

They are going to get sued by PETA.

[Phour ZwanZig @ Mar 9th 2008 8:52PM]

Y, no one said you have to strap it to your cat.. Hmm that could be fun thou..

[zapot8 @ Mar 10th 2008 12:13PM]

Nah PETA doesnt care about humans

[BatteryAcid @ Mar 9th 2008 8:02PM]

couldn't this be done by replacing the ruble in a controller with a transistor, some compactors, and a battery.

[wootman @ Mar 9th 2008 8:16PM]

would be cooler with some intense rumble.

[Sam @ Mar 9th 2008 8:21PM]

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]

[asphixiated @ Mar 9th 2008 8:32PM]

imagine this hooked up to dance dance revolution or guitar hero!

[H4MM3R @ Mar 9th 2008 8:48PM]

If I lose to you. You will be feeling even more pain!!!

[Jamie @ Mar 9th 2008 9:32PM]

If you buy this, you've already lost.

[theo.macris @ Mar 9th 2008 10:05PM]

Teamkillers should get zapped with a cumulative jolt.

[precognitro @ Mar 9th 2008 11:17PM]

Wouldn't the proper term be Masochistic? Sadistic is is joy from causing others pain, so Masoschistic is enjoyment of recieving pain.

[mushrooshi @ Mar 9th 2008 11:33PM]

Fail. The Game.

[AlphaTeam @ Mar 9th 2008 11:46PM]

Wow. I actually want one.

[PriTel03 @ Mar 9th 2008 11:55PM]

So will this thing make my muscles ripped like those electric ab belts I see on t.v. ?

[kevin @ Mar 10th 2008 4:18AM]

Only your hands, Spanky.

This thing will probably hurt about as much as being snapped with a rubber band.

[highjumpman @ Mar 10th 2008 5:28AM]

Just right for a Sim about death rows! Dead man walking!

[KazSur @ Mar 10th 2008 12:08PM]

@BatteryAcid

Woah?.. 6 amps.. I watched that episode and I believe it was 6 milliamps?.. or 60 milliamps?.. But surely not 6 amps.

[zapot8 @ Mar 10th 2008 12:13PM]

What a stupid device