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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. Dear ex-girlfriend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    what worries me is someone taking it too far and turning the juice up a little too much on one of their friends

  3. Uh by Andorion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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

  4. Re:Real Men… by Stonent1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slugheads.com used to have a video clip of a guy taking a stun gun to the scrote. Just standing there with them hanging out and some guy just walks up to him and ZAP. They play the song "I feel good" by James Brown in the background. It's funny as hell but they don't have it on their website anymore. Anyone seen a link for it?

  5. Real Idiots? by MikeFM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Real Idiots? by cs668 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No,

      I thionk it would be sort of fun. Basically, I think someone closed minded enough to rule it out without trying it wears the mark of an idiot.

      I once played lazer tag and it sucked. I couldn't actually figure out why it sucked it just did. Then I played paint ball and it was awsome. The pain of being hit by a paintball made the whole combat simulation of lazer tag real. I'm not sure if it trigers some sort of fight or flight response, but adding the pain made paintball moch more anjoyable. I imagine that this would have a very simmilar effect on Mortal Kombat.

    2. Re:Real Idiots? by MikeFM · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I've been electrocuted many MANY times and I've seen people seriously hurt by electricity. It's not a toy to play sadistic little games with. If you can't have fun without hurting yourself then there is good reason for you to seek mental help.

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  6. Re:20,000-volt shocking Xbox controller by sn00ker · · Score: 2, Insightful
    it only takes, what, 1 amp to kill a person
    .1A is enough to disturb the heart's rythm and send you into cardiac arrest. And people with pre-existing heart conditions are, obviously, susceptible to even lower currents.

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