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A Shocking Controller For The Xbox
An anonymous reader writes "This is freakin' awesome - Kevin Rose from TechTV has built a 20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller. Imagine playing your friends in Mortal Kombat now... you can actually feel the pain. Seems easy to build and runs about $40 in parts."
Will spend an extra $10 and build a testes adapter.
This thing has Darwin Award written all over it
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-Xenocrates
I wonder what uses women would have with this one since it doesn't virbate..
Hey! I'm sorry I'm too busy participating in projects with dozens of people, many of which involve drinking afterward, to actually talk about how the 2½ years we've lived together should be dealt with at the moment. If i had time i would give a shit, but right now i can only write half ass emails and spend 40 minutes with you and some tea on opposite ends of the couch watching bad television without dialog. Hope this, somehow, helps you understand how i am doing. Here's hoping my friend's don't move to tiwan and i have a shitty night shift job. If that happens i'm pretty certain I can score a place to live for free while i do my own projects like inviting all my friends over for condo sessions, because i know all the effort i am currently putting in creating distance between us will somehow be rewarded with a strong forgiving presence, since your needs on what constitutes our relationship is my enemy.
Yours truly, wasted years living followed by even more wasted years of regret.
Anyone else read the page and think "so where are the pictures of it being tested on someone???"
Imagine playing your friends in Mortal Kombat now... you can actually feel the pain.
This is nothing new. Playing any recent Mortal Kombat title always pains me greatly.
...work as one of those infomercial electro-workout machines? Just imagine it, you can exercise while sitting on your fat ass, eating cheetos and playing XBox.
Thank you, Bill Gates. Total fitness solution.
Never argue with an idiot, he'll just lower you to his level and beat you with experience.
> Kevin Rose from TechTV has built a 20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller. Imagine playing your friends in Mortal Kombat now... you can actually feel the pain.
Whatever happened to the good old days, when you and your friends just threw dirt clods at each other?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Wouldn't this give whoever's playing Rayden a dramatic advantage?
Tweet, tweet.
Painstation.
At least X-Box gamers will no longer be able to reproduce (not that they stood any significant chance before).
Yeah, like the Xbox controller wasn't painful enough already.
God is dead -- Nietsche
Nietsche is dead! - God
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"Seems easy to build and runs about $40 in parts."
And another $10,000 in hospital bills.
The Political Programmer
this guy has way too much time on his hands. holy shit.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
This brings a whole new meaning to kicking your ass at video games.
Got Extra Money?
And with 20000 volts flowing through you, you will quite literally be engaged in mortal combat.
~ Maintainer of the Skajake Projects
why anybody would want to do this I dunno.. but it would make for a great prank. hmm what are some other candidates for the 20000volt mod..
my keyboard and mouse for when I'm afk
my car once the alarm is set
my zipper for when i'm unconscious
bite my glorious golden ass.
If you want to experience this kind of pain then just go out with your buddies and buy stun guns and fight each other in hand to hand combat. At least if you really suck at XBox you would have a chance to shock your friends this way. I know guys who play some of those games so much that you could never touch them.
those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -isaac asimov
"what are you, an idiot?" stories.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Bill Gates got you all beat w/ the x-box
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html
The current passing through that thing is at MOST 0.02 mA (0.2 J = 0.02 mA x 20 kV). That's weak =)
~Berj
This kid really, really needs to get laid.
Now if only I could rig this up on everyone's keyboard to shock anyone that wants to remove a hand and continue chatting...
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Doesn't it remind you of Never Say Never Again, when James Bond plays "Domination" with Largo ?
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Where is Bond where you want to play Total World Domination for Xbox with him?
I guess that makes holding the damn thing more bearable!
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
Always looking to one up the competition, Microsoft is well known for its unique force feed-back devices
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Check out Tekken Torture Tournament
Actually I built a shocker with just a relay in my Radio Shack 200 in 1 kit. You loop the switch back to the coil. If you touch a certain combination of the pins it will shock you good enough to feel it. Not sure how it works, maybe something to do with the colapsing magnetic field in the coil over and over.
The way you DIE from electricity is by running voltage across your chest... there is no better way to do this than from one hand to the other. That is why electricians keep one hand in their pocket while working around live electricity... they don't want to DIE. Game controllers by design require BOTH hands to use. It doesn't take a genius to figure out where the electricity has to go to complete the circuit...
If you are only talking about recieveing a shock on one hand only, there really is no harm done (No path across chest), but this thing is just lethal! If this guy kills himself from using that controller, he should certainly get a Darwin award!
- Slew -
I can understand the idea of "because I can", that's part of being a geek. But really? I have never understood the whole masochism bent that some people have.
When I play a game, I want to have a fun, I want to enjoy the game and I don't want distractions. A device that causes pain would in all likely hood decrease one's playing ability, and therefore make the game less enjoyable since you aren't doing as well.
So unless you are a master of the game, and a handicap is the only way it challenges you, then I don't see the point. Pain in the name of realism is simply a thin veil for masochistic tendencies.
But on the other hand, if it makes you happy, go ahead. Just be prepared to answer some rather interesting questions about twitching and or burns because you built it wrong.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)
that this looks more than anything like a 'wacky' assasination technique used in the next Spy Kids movie and/or a hypothetical Get Smart remake?
Xbox Features Active Death Technology
Thank you BBSPOT!
You're playing...
The action is getting hot and fast.
You're kicking butt left and right.
Your opponent gets in a lucky a hit and you get shocked, drop the controller into your lap and bzzzzzz...
INSTANT BIRTH CONTROL.
Now who's the loser?
--- I'm Green Hornet's sidekick not Inspector Clouseau's!
I'm guessing Gamespy has already decided on the last 15 entries for their dumbest video game moments.
Philip Sandifer's academic website
... you can hire me to come to your house and hold a 9volt battery to your opponents tongue, win or lose.
will it work with linux-based xbox?
Funniest part of the whole damn article:
"Make sure to keep the shocker in one hand! You never want to split the ground/voltage between two hands. If you do, the voltage runs through your heart, which is bad."
We need more disclaimers like this one...
...I still like this one better: Rez_PS2
attn: link is NOT work safe
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Gimme a gamecube controller any day!
Nintendo is the Apple of the console world. Microsoft is the Microsoft of the console world...
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Read Pynchon.
oh no not santa's balls!
Parents everywhere rejoice as their children stop playing video games overnight due, in other news, children everywhere develope electrical burns on their hands...
I nominate SCO's logo.
But then again, I could be wrong.
"Why, Kevin, I am shocked!"
"Awwwww shocks."
"Shock it to ya, baby!"
(trash talk) "You know what movie I like? That's right - 'Shock-a-lot!'" (Cultural reference: the movie Choclate with Depp and Binoche)
(to music) "Boom boom, shock-a shock-a, boom boom."
(to music) "Shock-a khan, shock-a khan.."
Tech tv also did a story on the Pain Station, some guy built. Its a box that can shock burn stab, and i think there were a few other methods of causeing pain. Sofar its only capable of one of the classic games (pong i think)
Zelda!
More like CELda!!!!!
Make sure to keep the shocker in one hand! You never want to split the ground/voltage between two hands. If you do, the voltage runs through your heart, which is bad.
...and this of course is second only to "CLEAR!....nothing....I think that black box by his TV had something to do with this kids death."
Last time I checked, 20,000 volts is a huge number...Couldn't you die from that? Or get serious heart damage or something? Oh well I don't have an XBox anyway.
Does anyone else think that using such a sadistic device is the mark of an idiot? Making such a device for your own use is even more stupid.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
there will be a problem collecting the last 2 payments.
XBox Shock Mod Causes Death!
And if you had a Slashdot subscription you could have seen this article from the future and thus prevented your own death.
does the XBox shock U!
How to increase typing proficiency
;)
Wire backspace key to 20,000 volt taser
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
so it could be lethal to play your favorite racing game witht he engine revving vibration... not a pretty sight.
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
Didn't I already see this in a James Bond movie?
Okay, maybe it wasn't an XBox.
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
James Bond already did this YEARS ago, playing "Global Thermonuclear War" with Largo in "Never Say Never Again". And he won.
What we need is an Xbox mod that makes chocolate when you win, or gives people orgasms, or downloads porn or gives you credits on iTunes. Simple pain is so uncreative.
Why stop at the XBOX?
Surely there's plenty of other day-to-day goings on that could be enhanced by self administered electro shock therapy!
*Eating breakfast? - BAM!! - get nailed by the mains when you pick up your spoon
*Checking the mail? - BAM!! - get nailed by the mains when you open the letterbox door.
*Using the computer? - BAM!! - get nailed by the mains when you type on the keyboard
The only problem here is lack of vision. Electric shocks for the masses. Dance people, dance!!!
Ahem... but seriously.... WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!! It's only a matter of time until one of them bites it because they "thought they'd play a little bit of xbox while they took a bath." And I for one welcome that possible outcome. Freaks.
Shocking or not, it's still the same ugly unusable controller. I prefer the hacksaw mod, which reduces the size by half...at least.
...an XBox controller with built in gun, razor sharp edges, and a lawnmower sticking out of the face - all running Linux!
Scott: What are you trying to prove here anyway?
Venkman: I'm studying the effect o negative reinforcement on ESP ability.
Scott: Effect? Effect! I'll tell you what the effect is. This is pissing me off!
Thanks for trolling... I was expecting at least one or two of these in this story. Just remember that the Xbox is killing the Cube in the US and offers many games the PS2 does not have, and when it does... has vastly improved graphics and sound along with online play via Xbox Live.
Better stay in the cave... i heard its quite chilly in there.
I personally think someone should rig this to be able to go off on videos and stuff (DVD's, in-game videos, whatever). I'd pay a lot of money to see some people I know holding that zap-o-matic paddle while watching some of the Pro Bail movies from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. Argh, the nut-busters... *cringes just thinking about it*
"We are the Dyslexia of Borg. Your ass will be laminated. Futility is resistant."
Yo! I just bought this XBox!
<Bob> Now that's a BAD Fred. Use this controller
*ZAP*
<Fred> Ow!
<Bob> Again!
*ZAP*
<Fred> OWW!
<Bob> Again!
*ZAP*
<Fred> (tears streaming from eyes) Owwie owwie owww! Make it stop... I swear I'll only buy real consoles from now on!
<Bob> Justice is served.
This sig is part of your complete breakfast.
I remeber getting sores on the palms of my hand and thumbs when I woulld play 24 hours straight, now wouldn't this be kicking me why I am down?
So soon after I posted this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66851&cid=6141 274
I think I'm just gonna be sick.
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
a pain caused by 20,000 volts shock is quiet different from a nasty, freaky, bloody, uppercut. On top of that, have you ever wondered how would a fatality feel like...?
Also this adapter would work with any game, ...
including Freecell
Really folks... massochists of the world unite!
Wow, that was horrid. It could have been soooo funny, too, but your utter lack of spelling or grammar skillz left it lacking, at best.
This is just a preemptive response to all the misinformed posts about how many "volts" it takes to kill you.
:)
It's the AMPS that hurt, not the volts. But it takes VOLTS to overcome your body's resistance. If the current passes across vital organs, it's a different story.
E=I*R
Or DEATH = VOLTS / RESISTANCE
It takes about 100mA, or 0.1A, through the chest cavity to kill you. A couple of amps from one finger to the other will cause extreme damage and pain, but probably will not kill you.
You can stick your tongue on a 5V, 100A power supply and nothing will happen. You can also put you hand on a tesla coil producing a few KV, and you hair will stand on end but that's it.
But touch with each hand to a source capable of delivering 1+ KV at 10mA or more, and prepare to be zapped out of your gourd or maybe killed. A common stun gun generates a few KV but it is DESIGNED not deliver enough current (electron movement as opposed to "pressure") to kill. Same goes for this xbox mod - I'd have a go at it.
The voltage doesn't matter. It's the CURRENT (read: amperage) that kills you. Not voltage.
Will spend an extra $10 and build a testes adapter.
Come on, what better name than Ballz of Steel
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
I've got a force feedback device... Each time you get hit in "Mortal Combat", I smash a lead hammer into your face.
Xbox Features Active Death Technology
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html
Redmond, WA - In a bid to out-do competing force-feedback technologies such as Sony's vibrating PlayStation controllers, Microsoft today announced all controllers for the Xbox console will feature the newly-developed "ActiveDeath" technology. "ActiveDeath" actually kills the player when their on-screen character dies through a lethal injection carefully hidden inside the large green circle on the controller surface.
"There's been a lot of investigation on how to involve the player in the game on a physical level," said Microsoft Research Director Greg Thorton, "We've seen vibrating controllers, controllers that administer a small electric shock, and so on. We thought, 'why not take this to the next level and go all the way?'"
Zachary Chan, a college student and avid gamer, was excited by the news. "This is gonna be awesome," he wrote in an e-mail interview. "I know that me and my friends are all going to be getting one. Game over, man! Game over!"
Many question how Microsoft can profit from a product that kills its users, but through a unique licensing scheme Microsoft receives the entirety of the player's estate upon death. "We may not get much repeat business," said Mr. Thorton, "but we'll make up for it in loot we're bequeathed."
The technology seemed to be a hit at this year's E3 as well. Industry executives lined up for a chance to try Unreal: Championship with the ActiveDeath system enabled.
"It adds a huge dimension of emotional urgency to the game that wasn't there before," said one pale-faced programmer, before he keeled over and died.
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NO CARRIER
That's nice. Now all I need is a server that shocks me every time there's a security hole announced in it.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
KHAAAAAAANNN!!! (bzzt)
of watching "Jackass the movie" recently because my son wanted to see it. Well, this guy must be a reject from the Jackass set.
What a freaking retard. I've seen some dumb shit before but this asswipe takes the cake. What's he going to do when a buddy comes by for a little gaming and gets a fatal heart attack by this damn thing???
Stupid bastard. He should get a heart attack from it and die first. Let's just hope he doesn't pollute the gene pool before he takes the big dirt nap....
20,000 volts??? 20,000 volts??? wtf?? that's impossible!! that's a HUGE amount... I'm sorry, but this cannot be correct... TWENTY THOUSAND VOLTS!! Please, my high-school physics has long faded away, but I don't think 20,000 volts is attainable and if it was, you'd be fried in your chair.
Posted June 11, 2003
Modified June 10, 2003
Kevin's not only an electrician; he's a time traveller, too.
You da man!
You know those electro-stimulus kits they use for maintaining muscle tone on paraplegics and so on?
Imagine a kit plugged into the PC, with (ideally) a full body suit, or just electrodes, that actaully twitches the muscles being used in the game. Eg, running in the game gives you legs a workout. Not a hit==pain deal, but a movement==muscle-pulse deal.
That would be the shiznit, dude. No more fat/skinny gamer-geeks.
Obviously it's a metaphor.
Hmmm.
Am I the only one sort of puzzled by the whole idea? If you want physical punishment from a fighting game, I'd say picking up a marshal art such as Karate would be much better to your physical health!
;-)
/. I'll probably just be modded as a troll.
"But you can't practice Karate while drinking beer!" you say? Well, my friends, that's what bar fights are all about.
Seriously though, if you want physical punishment from a GAME, perhaps it's time to crawl out of the house and interact with the real world for a change. On the other hand, this being
How about you set it up so that if one player has a fatality performed on him, the Xbox falls on him? CRUSHALITY
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
Finally, a good reason to let my sister play.
So dead people can post on slashdot now? When you are electrocuted you are dead! you have had an electric shock if you are still alive afterwards! Zaaaaaaap!
It's not the volts that hurt, it's the current. For example you can take static electric shocks of several hundred volts (enough to kill electronic equipment) without noticing, because they have almost no current.
And these colors are hella painful.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
This is *only* pain from electric shock. I see two drawbacks. 1-The pain is real. This is not game anymore even if it's not dangerous. 2-This is real poor simulation. You get you're leg chopped and you receive an electric shock in the hand and not in your pseudo-injuried leg. Ok, i admit it's already better than juste vibration. But imagine a device that directly stimulate the nerves (or the brain) to simulate pain. You receive a shotgun hit in your back, you REALY feel the exact pain. At first you feel nothing. Then a small itching. Soon after, you feel an extreme feeling of burn in your back. Not just a plain vibration or shock in your hand. You'll regret you were born in the first place. Two advantages: 1- No real pain 2- Very good simulation Something like that could be used in a virtual reality game, with head mounted display, force feedback devices, and motion trackers and you end up with a game real close to reality, like in the movie eXistenZ I want one to play to DOOM :D !!!!!!!
Remember the pain device of the Reverend Mother, in Dune? Look like a pretty good simulation of pain! Maybe i should patent this, too ;)
20 000 volt shock in my hand.... nothing new under the sun. Pavlov did this to his dog.
Thats what pants are for.
Mains current to the hand is NOTHING!
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
WARNING: Some experts believe that use of any electrically shocking device may cause serious injury. Consult the statement on back of this controller.
Guys, I think we should cash in and definitely buy one for B.Gates, no? We can even "overclock" it!
of the BSOD!
about a month ago my roomate came home with 250 9 volt batteries he had gotten free from work becase they only had 8 volts or so in them.. so, of course we strung them end to end and were making little streeks of lightning. it made little balls of plasma on a glass of water, if you put on cable in the water, and the other just above it. fun stuff. Long story short i got a little too close to both contacts, got blown acros the room, as i had an aluminum splinter in my hand, it jumped into my hand, burning me badly there, and then out my wrist on the opposite hand. flew across the room swearing at teh top of my lungs, and then stomped the sht out of the abomination that was 2k volts of batteries. SO I ask you, how many amps would i have been hit by there? I know it was 2k volts, Because we had a volt tester present, but i have no idea the amperage. anyone?
-and occasionaly a giant moose.
Voltage equals current times resistance (V = IR). A human has a high electrical resistance (R). If the voltage(V) is low, you'll get a small current (I). For an average person, R is probably in the millions of ohms. To get a high current (enough to kill a person), you'll need thousands of volts.
Household electricity voltage is relatively low. In the U.S, it is about 120 Volts (rms). In Europe, it is more likely 220 Vrms. Household wires can carry tens of amperes of current, so power is not a problem. (aside: Power equals volts time current, P = VI).
Transferring energy efficiently accross long distances (e.g., cross-state power lines) requires using high voltages. Remember, Power = Volts * Amps. Making long distance high current wires is extremely expensive, so instead they use high voltages (thousands of volts). Of course, the wires are suspended hundreds of feet above the ground so that ordinary people won't touch them.
My other first post is car post.
I just kindof think that pavlovian training might help educate people about the relative merits of requiring your documents in MS Office.
So, I'd like a special shocking keyboard/monitor combo, that will electrify its user whenever it sees MS Office open up.
I think that this could keep the education on a level that MS Office users would understand.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
...and its perfect for an episode of jackass.
The mnemonic for this that I was taught was:
Didn't do much to reduce the number of singe marks on my hands though...
--- These are not words: wierd, genious, rediculous
you die in real life? Or are you trying to say, that I can dodge bullets?
To keep all those kids from hogging the consoles. Nobody would play longer than a couple of minutes ;)
Anyone else agree that Xbox Live is the best thing since sliced bread?
Try the new MechAssault downloadable content, look for me on Xbox Live (my gamer tag is jose chung) and prepare to die.
Lets meet in River City.
I wonder if he's a sadist or a masochist.
Thats why when working with electrical equipment, you should keep your left hand in your pocket, there's a lower chance of current going thgough your heart, as it will go up your right arm, and hopefully down your right leg. you insensitive clod!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-08 -28&res=h
Now if they take this same idea and integrate it into a keyboard, we could see some real benefits in the workplace.
You could tie it into Visual Studio's syntax checker. Mis-spell a function name? ZAP! Forget that semicolon? ZAP! It would be loads of fun to watch the developers nervously type at their workstations.. Same concept could apply to spell checkers!
Dupe posts are
We could also implement a freedb-like data base for virus hoaxes. Anyone who tries to forward a known virus hoax gets zapped and IE opens a hoax explanation page so they learn to check first.
Imagine how much safer the Internet could be!
Why not go to you closest Major City and pick a fight with the biggest guy you can find, heck make it with a police man. That way you can really get the feeling of a fight.
<for people who dont get sarcasm>Come on people! This is just a stupid idea. The point of vidio games like this is to get the aggression out so people dont get hurt. A little vibration is one thing to let you know you got hit. But a jolt of electricy is just unessary pain. There is a limit to realism that is needed. </for people who dont get sarcasm>
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
..they can chuck the Xbox and *really* beat the crap out of each other! Real pain, actually delivered to the point of impact!
Still wondering when we will see some controllers with built in body conductive sensors like the galvactivator ( http://www.media.mit.edu/galvactivator/ )
This will allow your avatar in games to mimic your own physical state (for example stressed and sweaty).
The most common "low voltage" electrical injuries are some kind of cardiac arrhythmia. The 60-cycle current that is the standard in the United States is just right to cause your heart to fibrillate at fairly low amperages. Presumably this is where the old "don't let the current go across your heart" expression comes from.
Once your heart is fibrillating, you rapidly lose consciousness, and are in cardiac arrest... just like the 70yo cardiac patient who collapses in your local Wal-Mart. You have about ten minutes to get defibrillated, or receive some kind of CPR before your odds of any kind of recovery are slim-to-none. The sooner you get defibrillated, the better (odds of survival go down roughly 10% per minute of unresuscitated cardiac arrest). What you require is direct-current defibrillation via your nearest AED, or friendly neighborhood EMS agency.
Now let's talk about high-voltage injury, which can be a bit different. High voltage injuries often cause burns at the entrance and exit site; not unexpected. However, electricity follows the path of least resistance, so any muscle belly inbetween the contact points (full of ions and such to conduct the jolt) is potentially the current's path. Problem is, high voltage will often literally "cook" that muscle belly, causing wholesale cell death and tissue necrosis... a BIG problem if it goes unrecognized.
Once that dead muscle starts to break down, it releases its component proteins into the bloodstream... myoglobin, CPK etc, a condition called rhabdomyolysis. Those proteins circulate until they reach the kidneys, and that's where the secondary problem begins.
The kidneys use their Glomeruli to "filter" the blood, and they do it well under normal circumstances. However, when this avalanche of excess protein hits them, the nephrons clog up, causing ATN (acute tubular necrosis), and renal failure. Unfortunately for you, you are now a dialysis paiient. Your kidneys may recover eventually, so you won't necessarily be a 3x/wk dialysis patient forever... but if this ever happens, I promise you you'll never want to repeat the experience.
There is a way to mitigate this, of course, and it's as simple as recognizing the high voltage injury, and keeping the person's kidneys running at full bore. Yep. That means running massive quantities of fluids into your veins, and watching it come right out of your foley catheter... with diuretic assistance, if necessary (diuretics are drugs that make you urinate).
Massively-high-voltage injuries, like lightning strikes, are another animal entirely. These injuries are less well-understood (probably due to the difficulty in replicating the phenomenon for study).
All of these injuries are bad, and I'd highly recommend avoiding them all... otherwise, you may find yourself in the ER with a guy like me standing over you... truly a horrifying experience.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
You can generate a very decent electric shock with the feedback current off a relay which is rigged up to "buzz" (i.e. normally closed, power comes in, opens it, and cuts power, closing relay..etc, etc).
I made one of these at school and successfully floored 3 people with it. Powered off a 9v battery.
I seem to remember that producing around 20Kv, although tricky to test.
You fool! You've given cheese to a lactose intolerant volcano god! Do you know what that means?
When I was a bench tech, we did the same thing with slightly used 9V batteries. We strung 30 of them together and series it with this strange 45V dry cell for good measure. A small neon lamp (NE-2 type) will glow white hot and VERY bright. We also had turbine pumps that could no longer pull their rated flow but still worked. These were small 12V motors in a cylindrical housing that drove a little plastic fan. The exhaust was powerful enough to make one crawl across the bench. The sound they made was great. The motor was screaming and you could hear the rush of air being forced through the housing. It was like a little jet engine on your bench. The commutators in the motors would glow red then white hot before failing completely. Another fun effect was that it would force the strands at the end of stranded wire apart into a porcupine shape, nice little demo of electrostatic repulsion. The arc was fun too.
No one offered to try it out with their tongue.
...before we see Lik-sang taking preorders for these.
Sidetrack: a 9 volt alkaline battery is actually 6 x 1.5 volt batteries in series (cut one open sometime). Batteries are a chemical reaction which put out a more-or-less fixed voltage. Regular batteries = 1.5V, nic-cad = 1.2V.
.004A. The max "safe" current is around .005A.
.05A is enough to mess with your heart and breathing, and somewhere in the 0.1-0.3A range will kill you. When they need to restart your heart after you try a stupid stunt like this, the medical defibrillator runs about 6 amps.
So if you had 250 of these in series, which I doubt, you step down your amps according to Ohm's law, which is V = I * R. Assuming the resistance for each battery is the same, you can just divide your estimated amps by the # of batteries.
1A is about the max for an alkaline battery in a short burst. Nickel-Cadmium batteries can put out closer to 2A for a quick draw, though. So (1/250) =
For comparison,
On the plus side, direct current is much less disruptive to your body's electric system than alternating current. The nerve impulses in the human body resonate at right around 60hz, making household AC far more dangerous than battery power.
***HOWEVER, trying what you described is still extremely dangerous.***
In addition to electrical harm to the body, there are other risks. In particular, not all batteries discharge at the same rate, especially faulty batteries such as the ones you were using. So one may discharge before the rest. But since a series circuit must maintain constant voltage, you now have the other batteries pushing a negative voltage difference onto the drained battery (in effect, charging it backwards), possibly causing an explosion.
Apparently, repeated electricution (even very small shocks) causes, in the long run, chronic impotence. The cause is not known exactly, but if I were you, I would stay clear of this kind of shit.
Sigged!
like they do the vibrating one?
Thats when you know your really tough!
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They had something like this for the Playstation 1 that never really took off. It was in the form of two wristbands. They claimed that the wristbands could add to the ambience of a creepy game by applying a mild but constant shock, as well as punishing you for numerous blunders you might make while playing. Unfortunately, the average video-gamer doesn't usually go out of his or her way (or wallet) to inflict pain upon themselves.
First "shocking" Xbox controller will be followed by a Slashdot.org article titled "First shocking Xbox controller DEATH"
*freak*
Y'know... flying pigs, and all.
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that game was against kamal khan in octopussy?
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Shocking people without warning can cause injury. In high school some guy thought it would be funny to electrify a doorknob to the electronics lab. Unfortunately, I was the one who got shocked. The injury occurred after I slammed his face into the wall a couple times. I got suspended, and he got a bloody nose and a solid slug in the stomach AND he got suspended for the prank. See? Injuries occur.
Does this remind anyone of the painstation?
This is certainly not a new idea but it is interesting that you can do this for a low price on your xbox. However for the trulely dedicated gamer (or masochist) you should check out a machine shown in last months EGM. A man (forgot his name) created an arcade style version of pong which not only shocks your hand when you miss a ball but also burns you and whips you. All you need after that is some black leather some latex and some hand cuffs and your good to go.
How about this controller mod:
1. Take a normal controller, and hold it as usual.
2. Have your best friend sit to the right and slightly behind you. It is important both of you pay close attention to the action on screen.
3. Whenever your character takes as hit/damage/falls have your friend right hook your face.
4. Bleed.
Same effect, just as stupid.
Microsoft has taken this to the next level with ActiveDeath Technology.
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All that time and effort to build a controller to give you the very same feeling Bill Gates gets when he sees another Playstation2 sale... :)
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
Finally we will see the crazy world domination/electrocution game first unveiled in Never Say Never Again.
What if your freakin' hands are freakin' wet? :0)
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this reminds me of all old article from bbspot.com http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html there so similar its almost scary!!!
I've always wondered why the adult industry isn't making money with "adult" video games or a Playboy console.
Why not build a female vibrator out of an xbox controller. Odd yes...million dollar idea...sure.
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Is there a psychological term related to getting your stories rejected on slashdot?
hope Rover doesn't accidently piss on on this thing or you may find the family dog embedded in the opposite wall.
Wouldn't it make more sense to get advice from the guy who hasn't elecrocuted himself a bunch?
Never Say Never Again
The clearance system sounds logical. It is not. It is completely arbitrary. -- John Bolton
Here's what you do if you don't have the expertise of funds ...
1. Load up your favorite Xbox game that supports the rumble feature.
2. Have your best friend sit slightly behind and to the right of you; make sure he pays close attention to the action on screen.
3. When the rumble feature is activated, have your friend right hook you in the face.
4. Bleed.
Same effect, just as stupid.
Your post made me laugh so hard I peed my pants.
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would be a Raiden Array!
Talk about having a 'Dual Shock' controller.... "Finish him!"
The only natural selection this will invoke is the merciless destruction of all who wish to "Really feel the pain" in games... Mortal kombat truly will become 'Morbid Dead Twat'. And how the mortal gene will be passed, i dont know... this teste adaptor will render all users infertile...... like it made a difference anyway............... we all know celebacy is a hands on affair
I think the xbox controller is painful enough, lets not add the possibility of idiocy toit
GET A MAC! - you sound like you need one...
The one I have always used:
"Volts Jolt, Mills Kill."
Same idea, but this one reinforces it a little more I think.
Jeremy