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A Shocking Controller For The Xbox

Posted by timothy on from the use-responsibly-or-not-at-all dept.

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."

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  1. Real Men… by l810c · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will spend an extra $10 and build a testes adapter.

    1. Re:Real Men… by AvantLegion · · Score: 5, Funny
      Will spend an extra $10 and build a testes adapter.

      Interesting vehicle for natural selection. After a few generations, only the strong Mortal Kombat player genes will be left!

    2. Re:Real Men… by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, I agree it will be a vehicle for natural selection. However, I don't think it will work like you think it will.

    3. Re:Real Men… by adpowers · · Score: 5, Funny

      http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2002/10/26 /sex_in_games_rezvibrator.html

      It is called the Rez and it is a Japanese game for the play station.

    4. Re:Real Men… by LineNoiz · · Score: 5, Funny

      I probably shouldn't tell anyone about this, but what the hell...

      In my younger (and shorter) days, I dared to piss on the electric fence. It wasn't a terribly high voltage or anything. I had grabbed the wire a few times before and it made the muscles in my arm flex and tingle, but that was about it. I passed this fence daily on my way home from school. One day, I was peeing in a field (I think I was out camping...) and I thought about that fence. The electric wire was at about my head level, so I tried to get my arc up and even with my head. When I did, I noticed that at the apogee, the stream broke into many disconnected parts. Seeing that, I thought I would give the electric fence a whiz because I didn't think it would actually zap me. So I told my friends about it (because I was an idiot), and they all came to watch me pee on the fence. I made it about 30 seconds before a totally connected stream hit the wire. I was knocked off my feet, and my balls ached for a week. I pissed all over myself, because I couldn't stop the flow. After that, I couldn't pee for two days. Horrifying experience...

      Remember kids: Don't take a whiz on the electric fence!

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  2. 20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller by frieked · · Score: 5, Funny

    This thing has Darwin Award written all over it

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    1. Re:20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller by rlanctot · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is gonna suck if you're playing a game with grampa and accidentally hit him. /wave pacemaker.

  3. So.. by dr+ttol · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder what uses women would have with this one since it doesn't virbate..

    1. Re:So.. by jfisherwa · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, you must not have read the part about the secret remote activator keyfob. Perfect for the girlfriend or wife.

      "You told me a half-hour ago that you would take the trash out as soon as you died." *push* *ZAP!@#!*" .. "But, jus-" *push* *ZZAAAP%$@#!@*

    2. Re:So.. by EverDense · · Score: 3, Funny

      electrical current can acheive an orgasmic effect when applied to the genetalia. That is low
      current, I doubt 20,000 volts would be very pleasurable

      Great, you've just inspired a legion of pimply-never-get-laid-geeks[tm] to hook "themselves" up to
      electric currents.

      On the upside: capacitor and battery sales have gone through the roof.

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    3. Re:So.. by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 3, Funny

      it may cause sterility, not that that was going to be a problem for most of them ;P

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  4. photos of it in use?? by Wakkow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone else read the page and think "so where are the pictures of it being tested on someone???"

  5. Where's the innovation here? by Longinus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Where's the innovation here? by buck_wild · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hahaha! That had me chuckling in an otherwise silent office.

      Thanks for allowing everyone to figure out that I wasn't working.

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      If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
  6. Could this... by konichiwa · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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.

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    Never argue with an idiot, he'll just lower you to his level and beat you with experience.
  7. Sigh... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > 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?

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    1. Re:Sigh... by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      someone lost an eye.

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  8. Mortal Kombat by weston · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't this give whoever's playing Rayden a dramatic advantage?

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  9. A self-fulfilling solution by davidstrauss · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least X-Box gamers will no longer be able to reproduce (not that they stood any significant chance before).

  10. Ouch by chaddarland · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, like the Xbox controller wasn't painful enough already.

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  11. It doesn't add up by rice_web · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Seems easy to build and runs about $40 in parts."

    And another $10,000 in hospital bills.

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    The Political Programmer
  12. we need an icon for by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    "what are you, an idiot?" stories.

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  13. This is nothing new by robogun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill Gates got you all beat w/ the x-box

    http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html

  14. Uhhhh.. by poptones · · Score: 4, Funny

    This kid really, really needs to get laid.

  15. One handed typists by buck_wild · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now if only I could rig this up on everyone's keyboard to shock anyone that wants to remove a hand and continue chatting...

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  16. Nice idea, but by Snowspinner · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm guessing Gamespy has already decided on the last 15 entries for their dumbest video game moments.

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  17. for half the price.... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... you can hire me to come to your house and hold a 9volt battery to your opponents tongue, win or lose.

  18. Holy Christ by WTFmonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  19. Re:Uh by Wakkow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reading your post made me think of creating a new game:

    TASER TAG!
    "Last one standing, wins!"

  20. Re:Death by XBOX by Squarewav · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  21. You knew it was coming. by Captain+Nitpick · · Score: 5, Funny
    we need an icon for "what are you, an idiot?" stories.

    I nominate SCO's logo.

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    But then again, I could be wrong.
  22. Re:Only 3 easy payments of $9.95! by ColaMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    The eFork is made of the same Space Age material encapsulating the Astronauts!

    eeeewww! skin?

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  23. It's about time by LongJohnStewartMill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally, a good reason to let my sister play.

  24. double the voltage by kerb · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and its perfect for an episode of jackass.

  25. Re:Real Idiots? by Zirnike · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're missing the point. You give the modified controller to your opponent.

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