Philips wants to get you in the movies -- or at least into a goofy vibrating jacket
By Tim Stevens 
posted Mar 20th 2009 9:03AM
posted Mar 20th 2009 9:03AM
Philips has definitely done more for sensory immersion than most with its amBX line of... things, but a general shortage of people willing to mount fans or rumbling wrist rests on their keyboards hasn't kept the company from developing what it thinks is next: a vibrating jacket. The unnamed and triangle-patterned coat features 64 little rumblers distributed throughout, all powered by a pair of AA batteries. The intent is to better immerse you into movies by, say, replicating a light touch running up either arm or simulating an actor's beating heartbeat -- "emotional immersion" they call it. We're not so sure this will be any more compelling than the vibrating vests companies have been trying to sell gamers (and the military) for years, but we do know that Philips had better watch out for lawyers from Immersion.[Via Slashdot]
Does it come with sweet middle age dreads?
Otherwise, pass.
Those dreads would be much geekier if the guy was balding on top.
That's my uncle!
That guy looks like an extra from the movie Outlander.
Guy in picture is clearly from THE FUTURE!
Wow, I should steal his time machine so I can stop him from wearing that jacket.
Who are you to judge the fashion of the future!
Well, that's depressing. I had hoped that by the time the future comes awful hair styles would be gone.
Or just get a nice subwoofer. XD
Negative points for the guy flipping his "beautiful" hair over his shoulder. "Oh hai, look at me".
With "vibrating jacket" in the headlines, I can already predict the comments that will follow mine.
Something about vibrating pants being truly the next level?
It's like a Vibrator vor the whole body. Cool, huh?
I bet they could better sell if they had claimed it to be some kind of massage vestment.
Where ever he works doesnt drug test.
Philips, as per the headline, article, and read-link. I could be wrong though. Also, a Dutch company, so... no.
Who needs drugs testing if the job gets done? Damn america is all chuckfull of pussies that are slaves now, sigh.
nice hair, grandpa.
Cracka-ass cracka with dreads alert
Ah, so this is the guy Bethesda used to model the mo-cap on for a wastelander in Fallout 3?
Interesting......
Seriously, I want to be clever and ironic, but I just look at Robert Q. Marley, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, up there, and I lose it.
This jacket = No Woman.
No Woman = No Cry.
Just for reference, the lyric "No woman no cry" isn't stating that the absence of a woman will equate to the absence of emotional pain. He is telling the woman not to cry.
Said - said - said: I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the ypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we meet.
Good friends we have, oh, good friends weve lost
Along the way.
In this great future, you cant forget your past;
So dry your tears, I seh.
No, woman, no cry;
No, woman, no cry.
ere, little darlin, dont shed no tears:
No, woman, no cry.
Stiv has Caucasian dreadlocks. Dreadcaucs.
Ummm...that's great Stiv. Your Bob Marley knowledge is first rate and all, but, ahh...he was making a funny.
Vibrating pants for porno movies = profit!
dont they all ready sell underwear like that!
Ones that are already connected with the movie?
+1 Armour point
-1 AP
-3 Luck (no luck with women).
:-/
-5 Charisma
that "suit" looks like a prototype for some Star Trek opnes...
Even star trek has more style...
Didn't they already develop a vibrating bed? Isn't that enough?
Where do you insert the quarters in the jacket anyway.... so many questions.
Ask your gf she might now XD
Commenters on Engadget don't have gfs, you trickster!
shhh some of do, and some are made up and well some are inflatable but who am i to judge you? in the words of Seinfeld: "Not that there is anything wrong with it"
This would be much better if they glued lots of crystals to it.
Why is he hiding seahorses under his jacket?
He doesn't want people t know he's into kinky nipple-sucking seahorses.
Stupid.
Needs supporting movie content to take off. No studio will implement supporting titles due to zero adoption rate. Uber gimmiky. Maybe something for the next "look and feel" 20 minute flick at Universal Studios. I, and no one else, will ever be wearing these in our living rooms watching new episodes of survivor.
I am usually never draw such absolute conclusions, but as a consumer product, this thing is FAIL!
That's Professor Brewster, you all need to show some respect!! :D
Anybody else having "Battlefield Earth" flashbacks?