Wireless ButtKicker kit ready to rumble your posterior
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 17th 2008 10:40AM
posted Nov 17th 2008 10:40AM
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Does it come with a warning label for hemoroid sufferers?
use it for porn! (i know, i know)
happy ending not included.
ask your buddy for that
Why do people even invent these things? I know of the hard work that goes into the design process, why would the conceptual parents really expect a good number of people to be excited over this?
I understand taking risks for a product, but seriously. Who the hell is going to pay $300 to have his or her ass rumble in sync with a movie?
I think excited is definitely the right word for it...
a lot of people. when i worked for directv, this one guy had these crazy buttkicker things bolted to the floor joists under his living room, made the whole room shake like mad. he was showing me how it all worked, he put on live free or die hard and it literally made me have to pee.
I would probably buy it for my wife to use it as a sybian.
Just tell her to sit on a regular subwoofer.
The human usability testing for this must have been fun.
I have the regular wired Buttkicker. It is kinda cool for a few minutes, but then I had to turn it off. It feels a bit like someone is just rattling the chair every time the subwoofer kicks in.
Congrats on being an idiot, maybe if you would have read the products description you would have realised that is exactly how it is supposed to feel...
I understand its purpose. It just sounded better on paper ("product's description").
Do you not have control over your individual audio channels? It would seem like you could adjust it until it felt just right - rather than getting a bug in your...rather than chapping your...well just adjust the stupid thing, okay.
I have a wired one as well. I like it, but there's a significant delay (appx 100ms or more) in the bass hitting... Pretty annoying.
It's adjustable (has cutoff fliters and levels). I just found the best adjustment to be off. This is personal opinion. I really thought I would enjoy it, because I like a good bit of bass. Unfortunately, it just became more of a nuisance than anything. Perhaps it would be better than nothing for use with headphones in an area that needs to remain quiet. It is not completely silent, sounding somewhat comically like a large cellphone vibrating, but certainly not as invasive as the low frequencies from a sub.
How much can it lift? I'm no scrag.
Don't worry fat boy, this doesn't lift anything.
I'd low rank you if you weren't right...
Just sit on a vibrating dildo and you'll get the same effect.
How did you sychronize your dildo with your movies?
Very carefully.
Why can't you use one of those iPod dildos, or one that connects to any MP3 player?
http://www.fmforums.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80625
That would sync it with the music!
(Only or Butt Pirates and women)
@Lowest Ranked
I guess he's settled for "Always On"
"without any cords necessary"? I assume there's a power cord?
I'm assuming it runs on a battery of some kind. Maybe just AAs.
nothin' like a supercharged AA buttkicking... I bet that really brings the house down.
Look at the third picture. That box it's connected to? It's a 1000 watt amplifier.
No way that's running on AA's.
A large dinner of beans before a movie is a better sub woofer than this.......
...and much smellier.
I hear-by volunteer my services to kick the butt of anyone who purchases this product.
You're going to be busy for awhile, butt PiRATE.
For the many times I've heard that lame joke, Lowest, yours is the most appropriate. ;)
that will tickle up in my ass
Drummers who play electric kits have been using these for years. Mounts under their throne so they can feel what they often cannot hear.
Their colon?!
very carefully.
So I guess I'm the only one that wants one of these?
correct
May be the concept can be great but the stupid name.
People have been doing this for years, at least in the car audio scene. You could certainly do it cheaper than 300 bucks if it's your thing
I wonder how many people are gonna be pissed when the battery dies right in the middle of a "movie". However, I for one will take my vibration with sound. Who in the hell wants to feel like a deaf man in an earthquake. That and I would want the actual bass sound to drowned out all the stuff vibrating and squeaking in my living room.
I don't believe it runs on batteries. It's connected to an amplifier that would definitely need to be plugged in. You can see it in the third picture attached to the press release.
In this case, "wireless" means that you don't need to run speaker wire around your living room/home theater. You still need to power the thing.
I picked up several of the lower-powered Aura shakers for $10/ea on a closeout sale several years ago. They work great if you don't set the gain too high relative to your main speakers/subs. You shouldn't notice the vibrations if you have it set right - it will just add to the perceived sub output in the really low frequencies. When I have friends over I don't tell them there are shakers in the floor, they just think it's straight subwoofer output.
$300? No.
I'm not too keen on wireless stuff, since I'm assuming that it will still need a power cable, running an audio cable as well isn't too big of a deal. And the way my stereo is set up, all the wires would be hidden anyway.
This does sound like it could add something that is missing from my current stereo setup though. My 12" sub just isn't powerful enough to shake the room, but it does a good job at recreating the correct bass response.
Do these things really work?! A company named Aura made these and they were called Shakers. It is probably the same company trying to get away from their trashed name. I have heard the Shakers installed in cars and I laughed and laughed. It seemed as if it was just a vibrator motor from a giant cellphone lol. Yes, you felt the sound but it wasnt near as accurate or enjoyable as a subwoofer; it was a joke. Get what you pay for I guess...
They are a different company than Aura. The Aura ones have already been less expensive.
Want. Two. One for each backside foot of the couch. Audible bass is what speakers are for.
Am I the only one for whom the link to Amazon is not working?
$300 is a bit much, but the idea of these has always intrigued me. I have a very nice surround system, but I don't get the really 'open it up' very often due to the wife and kids. The sub in my basement can be felt on the 2nd floor if I crank it. (Which I don't). This is a nice alternative if you want to feel the bass, while keeping the house rumbling to a minimum. But if you don't have to keep the volume down, then these would be a waste of money.
Guitar hammer? That sounds so badass.
See ya in the bargain bin!
Should help with stubborn bowel movements, etc.
Don't place it too close to the front edge of your sofas, kids, else the butt kicker becomes a nut kicker.
crack jokes all you want but this device will actually help a lot deaf movie fans experience the rumble in some action films. I guess some people take sound effects in moves for granted. Try watching Star Wars or Lord of the Rings on Mute and in close-captions. Definitely not the same experience.
Hm... no, I don't agree. You can't simulate the experience of a deaf person just by turning down the volume. Especially when the person has been deaf since birth and doesn't even know what it feels like to *hear*, hence doesn't miss it at all. Also, many deaf persons are very sensitive to vibrations and mechanical impulses, e.g. when something falls on the floor somewhere (and the floor isn't completely rigid), they're more likely to notice that than, let's say, a hearing person with earplugs. Thus, I doubt a deaf person would consider it comfortable to get "kicks to the butt" and on top of that in a pretty random fashion, because the sound that would interlink the motion and and the picture, is not there (many sound-generating action is off-screen).
I've seen these used by drummers to emulate the feeling of a kick drum through a foldback when using in ear monitors. Worked really well.
I have a pair of these in my convertible (one mounted to each seat). They're nice. And they are the ONLY way to perceive bass in a convertible at highway speeds.
Welcome to the party! We did this 13 years ago at ThunderSeat using the Aura "Bass-shaker" electromagnet device. Google us