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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..
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.
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
"Seems easy to build and runs about $40 in parts."
And another $10,000 in hospital bills.
The Political Programmer
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.
"what are you, an idiot?" stories.
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Bill Gates got you all beat w/ the x-box
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html
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.
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.
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...
Parents everywhere rejoice as their children stop playing video games overnight due, in other news, children everywhere develope electrical burns on their hands...
Reading your post made me think of creating a new game:
TASER TAG!
"Last one standing, wins!"
from the article
Run two wires (ground/voltage) from the pest shocker into the Xbox controller. I ran mine through one of the front memory sockets. Drill two holes through the controller to the desired location of the shocker.
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.
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.."
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.
i've played that before. My and my friends got big nine volt batters, some screws, a few capacitators, and some wire. Instant tazer. quite fun.
in retrospect, i've lived a very foolish childhood
YOU SUCK BALLS!
Shocking or not, it's still the same ugly unusable controller. I prefer the hacksaw mod, which reduces the size by half...at least.
The eFork is made of the same Space Age material encapsulating the Astronauts!
eeeewww! skin?
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
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
Finally, a good reason to let my sister play.
...and its perfect for an episode of jackass.
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.
What if your freakin' hands are freakin' wet? :0)
You're missing the point. You give the modified controller to your opponent.
I'm not shy, I'm stalking my prey
Your post made me laugh so hard I peed my pants.
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