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http://www.painstation.de/

Maybe I should have read the article....maybe even the summary...

http://www.painstation.de/new/

Very true, I was referring to a more direct, programmable way to mess with someone's mind. I am sure this would be pretty dangerous but I also think it would be pretty cool. But, I remember after writing my initial comment that there was something called the Painstation. A somewhat crude way of accomplishing something I was imagining.

Is is called Painstation: http://www.painstation.de/

a couple of years ago i saw this in an electronic art fair. they had pictures of people who played it too long, hands with sores etc. etc.
it's basically pong, with added pain when you lose a ball. they have pain from heat, a sort of whip and shock. as the game progresses, the pain gets worse.
i did not try it out. you may call me a whimp, but i do not enjoy pain so much...

looks like they have a version 2 out!
painstation

Sounds a bit like the painstation. I've had the chance to play with that thing once and it is kind of fun ... for 5 minutes at last.

this is not as oldschool as the james bond (never say die? can't remember exactly which one) world domination game but it still IS painful.

http://www.painstation.de/

Well, people with severe emotional disturbances tried it... The gallery on the painstation site suggests that I have not yet dated as high a ratio of the borderline-personalities out there as I had once thought.

Now if we just combined it with the technology of the PainStation, we'd have a real learning tool:

Mrs. Crabapple: Ralph, I want you to use this new pen.
*scribble scribble*
Ralph: It feels like burning!

Wha, i heard rumors PainStation is a violent game. How about Power Pong instead (Pong on a bicycle).

Oh you mean like the painstation or the Xshock controller? Nice to see that even artists aren't above using someone else's idea.

Does this remind anyone of the painstation?

Painstation.

...should try the PainStation!

A few months back on here, there was an article about these Germans who invented the Painstation, which offered a little negative reenforcement when you screwed up. I think a truly challenging game would be one where you had to relax, or you risked getting shocked. See how relaxed you can be under threat of torture!

Come to think of it, that might not be a bad way to train yourself for polygraph examinations, either...

The fact that these guys went through so much trouble to bring the element of physical pain to the typically less than tactile sport of gaming indicates that they are masochists. They were dissatisfied by the lack of pain in their gaming, so they fixed that shortcoming. Besides their basic engineering skills at accomplishing this feat, they also indicate their intelligence and cynical wit with the clever title of Painstation. This photograph provides evidence that they have the ability to perseverse through adversity.

Now if you combine these qualities, you get a formidable force. If Sony threatens them over over the use of the term "Painstation", I say that they shouldn't back down, and I would be puzzled if they did! Not many people would confuse an archiaic self contained bar-sized electronic table-tennis-torture device with the Sony Playstation line of Home gaming consoles, even with the "force-feedback" option. I say that these clever masochists should stand by their production in the face of the belligerent Sony, and who better to do it! If not for the cause of marketing technological advancement despite questionable Intellectual Property practice, then at least for the sake of art! More than just a proof-of-concept of a phyciological Human Computer Interaction theory, this is an artistic statement regarding the current reality of the gaming and home entertainment industries. All great art comes from suffering artists, and this is no exception!

Of course, I do have a few reservations. The word should not be an issue, but if this is going to be produced for mass marketing, then I might take exception to the use of the Playstation font or visual appearance. I think that bringing this into the world of commerce should impose some IP rules. The fact that most of this is preexisting technology should definitely be considerdd to th benefit of the Painstation.

The most important concern is how sanitary this is. I'd hate to pick up Hepatitis at the local video arcade...

-castlan

Oh yea? Have a look at this. These people are sick.

--Ben

You can tell they are into pain before using the Painstation, the green shouts it at you!