Rage Wireless Guitars recalled, chemical burns deemed too emo
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 23rd 2008 8:09AM
posted Oct 23rd 2008 8:09AM
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posted Oct 23rd 2008 8:09AM
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FACE MELTING!
My Chemical Romance?
We all know guitar hero was dangerouse for your Image as a rocker. Just never that it was bad for your health.
But being bad for health should mean it's good for image of a rocker...
then again holding a modular piece of plastic with no fret or strings in front of a leisure suit larry: magna cum laude style 'press the right button now' scroller never made anyone a rocker.
Cue the "this wouldn't happen if you were learning to play a real guitar" chip on shoulder brigade!
Quite a few people have died due to accidents with (real) electrical guitars, including pro's.
Is anyone experiencing a bug in the comments section that forces the page to scroll down and select the "Add Comment" button. This has been happening for a week now. Prevents me from reading the comments section unless i manully hold the scroll button down
doesn't happen to me, what browser are you using, firefox here
Disabled LastPass and it stopped happening. Will go over to the LastPass forums to follow up on this error.
Only happened while I was on engadget though.
Only when I reply. It posts the same comment half a dozen times!
Only when I reply. It posts the same comment half a dozen times!
Only when I reply. It posts the same comment half a dozen times!
Only when I reply. It posts the same comment half a dozen times!
Only when I reply. It posts the same comment half a dozen times!
Only when I reply. It posts the same comment half a dozen times!
Dervheid, have mercy on paakofi's inbox
Ooops.
Think that's it sorted.
Ooops.
Think that's it sorted.
@dervheid
engadget's comment system may be bad, but you're not fooling anyone. your 6 posts are spread across 2-3 minutes.
Meh!
Hooked you though!!
All work and no play makes dervheid a dull boy.
All work and no play makes dervheid a dull boy.
All work and no play makes dervheid a dull boy.
All work and no play makes dervheid a dull boy
You know what people could do? They could just put the effing batteries in the right way, that's what.
doctor: How did you get those burns?
kid: I don't know how to operate a double-A battery.
doctor: That's it! I refuse to fight natural selection any more. Get out of here.
"A Darwin award awaits you, my son, it is DESTINY!"
How do you put batteries in wrong? They have very noticeable +'s and -'s and also the curly spring thing...
Some people use recreational drugs before playing you know, respect different lifestyles please.
Hmm, squares voting me down? Or what's the issue?
I'd love to meet the moron who could not follow simple instructions...
+ -
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He probably works at the dumb-ass company that makes a product that spews acid if you put the batteries in the wrong way.
Maybe they should just rename the guitar to the "acid-spewer" and call it a feature.
@Mojo
If they did that, they would have to rename their company to Apple, Sony, or Microsoft...
I don't get your little diagram thing. That is, if it was supposed to show some batteries.
Nope. Still don't see it.
The diagram screwed up obviously by the commentsystem eating the spaces or something.
Ah, I get it, you just vote all my comments down for fun today, I'm ok with that.
I bet this made some users RAGE.
HAHA SO RANDUM XD
Acid is awesome.
I had seen a 3rd-party wireless guitar for Wii at Wal-Mart that did not require the Wii remote, but claimed to work with Guitar Hero 3.
Presumably, it has Bluetooth components built-in. The price was very reasonable, if I recall correctly.
I think this is the same one I noticed, but I'm not sure because Engadget didn't mention which console it was designed for. I didn't notice the horrible whammy bar placement until just now.
OMG you're right that whammy bar placement is HORRIBLE, where did they even get the idea for that????
Ah Performance Designed Products, making the world a better (and more intelligent) place one acid-burned moron at a time.
This time.
Maybe...
Rock and Acid have always gone together so well before this, I fail to see the problem
doh... you beat me to it...
One word: Diodes.
Guitar Hero and LSD producing unit all in one. Now THERE is a concept
Every manufacturer is recalling their stuff, are they becoming careless?
www.youtechno.info ----->You Techno
I don't get it. Many electronic devices will cause batteries to discharge and potentially leak if installed incorrectly. Why was this device recalled and all the others haven't been?
Because people are fucking stupid and refuse to take responsibility for their own ignorance. The manufacturer probably decided to recall rather than risk backlash on teh internets.
I can only presume that the leaking takes quite a while to occur since even if you directly shorted AA batteries they wouldn't immediately explode. So most people who actually manage to insert the batteries wrong would probably notice that their stupid controller didn't work and swap it long before the batteries ever blew up.
Anyways, the real problem with this product isn't the circuitry so much as a battery holder that actually lets you put in batteries wrong and still lets them complete a circuit.
Woo Hoo!
Another day, another set of low rankings.
Some people out there need to get a life if you've time to mark that many comments down.
Let's see who we can piss off today!
Am i the only one thats really notcied the guitar has the buttons at the stem of the neck and not just in the top of the guitar where the usual buttons are? like the holes on the side of the neck is a sual look for the Rock band guitar?
Is it just me who's noticed that?