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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 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.

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

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Mortal Kombat by weston · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  8. Sounds like the... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Painstation.

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

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

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  10. 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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  11. we need an icon for by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    "what are you, an idiot?" stories.

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  12. 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...

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

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

    TASER TAG!
    "Last one standing, wins!"

  14. 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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  15. got hit by 2k volts once, not sure the amps. by enigmatichmachine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

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