To The Pain

Reedo writes: "If you enjoy gaming and pain, this is for you. Two German designers have developed the Painstation, which is basically a revamped Pong. Except for one major difference - The PEU(Pain Execution Unit), which delivers a dose of pain to your left hand in the form of heat, punches or electroshock, when you mess up."

Comments

LIke 007!!!

[Sorcerer13]

In Never Say Never again, like the world domination game. Wasn't that guy a German too.

Is this really healthy?

[Starship Trooper]

Most computer-inclined people already abuse their hands enough as it is, wrecking their wrists with 15-hour coding binges, hours spent playing Playstation 2 games on those horrible little controllers, and of course *ahem* viewing "multimedia content" on the Web. Something like this, if it becomes popular with geeks, will only exacerbate the carpal tunnel epidemic that's already putting geeks out of employment by the thousands. These frivolities like electric shock, force feedback and "rumble packs" are only exacerbating the problem that today's computer interfaces are an ergonomic nightmare.

Research being wasted on silly projects like this should instead be focused on voice recognition, speech synthesis, and other computer interface technologies that will finally allow us to eliminate the torturous tools that are the modern keyboard and mouse. My friend, who once commanded a six-figure salary coding C++ for a large development firm, has been crippled by these implements and now has to struggle with demeaning part-time jobs in order to put food on the table. I would hate to see this happen to somebody again. We must throw off the shackles of the typing paradigm.

You are Violating the DMCA

[Brynath]

You Are violating the DMCA, your use of a hammer circumvents the need to use the painstation.

Thanks for getting hammers outlawed man.