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.

Hmmm....

[Robert Hayden]

If only we could wire this up to remotely do the same to Bill gates every time Windows crashes...

PoIP (Pain over IP) protocol. Coming to an RFC near you.

Re:Hmmm....

[bero-rh]

If only we could wire this up to remotely do the same to Bill gates every time Windows crashes...

Actually I'm glad we can't... If we could, I'm quite
sure I'd actually get and install Windows, and I don't want
to hurt my beloved computer that badly. ;)

How to do this for, oh, $10

[Tyler Eaves]

Download MAME
Download Pong ROM
Buy Hammer
Thwack self on hand with hammer on death.

Rinse, lather, repeat until hand becomes bloody stump.

To The Pain - The Reference

[screwballicus]

In case you've been living on another planet for the past generation, here's what the phrase "to the pain" should mean to you:

From The Princess Bride

Humperdink: "...to the death"

Westley: "No. To the pain."

Humperdink: "I don't believe I'm familiar with that phrase."

Westley: "I'll explain, and I'll use small words so you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon."

Humperdink: "That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me."

Westley: "It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you lose is your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrist. Next your nose."

Humperdink: "Then my tongue, I suppose. I killed you too quickly the first time, a mistake I do not mean to duplicate tonight."

Westley: "I wasn't finished. The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by your right."

Humperdink: "And then my ears, I understand, let's get on with it."

Westley: "WRONG! Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. It's so that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out 'Dear God, what is that thing' will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever."

No no no... you don't understand!!!

[Restil]

You can't sue us because you got carpal tunnel syndrome. Thats a FEATURE OF THIS KEYBOARD!!! Marketing information has clearly shown that people who work with computer equipment WANT to be in pain.

-Restil

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.

Re:sexy?

[freeweed]

While I love Legend of Zelda as much as the next gal

Zelda fan AND female. Marry me. Pain optional.