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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 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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    At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
    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.