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Tongue-Controlled Gameboy Advance SP Launched
Hangin10 writes "Simmunity Corporation and newAbilities Systems Inc. is going to introduce a specially modified tongue-controlled Gameboy Advance SP for young people with quadriplegia. They say 'We retrofit the Gameboy Advance SP with an internal PIC microcontroller to decode the wireless tongue transmitter signals and activate the GBA buttons. Games which do not require multiple simultaneous button presses can be played. We also offer custom games and special programs for augmented communication.'"
Nothing but bonuses all around on this one... /P
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A tongue controller. Hmm... does anyone know if Virtual Valerie 2 has been ported to the Gameboy Advance SP? I may yet buy one of these, assuming my medical plan covers lockjaw.
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Damn it!!! Lesbians will have a leg up on these games to start.
Evolution or ID?
Isn't that a little outdated? I thought our scientists were working on controls built around electrodes attached to the brain.
I really can't think of any games (other than RPGs) that don't require multiple buttons pressed simultaneously.
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Too many jokes in head!
Must make funny before brains run out of ears!
Let's not make any handicapped jokes please. Alright, porn industry jokes are fine.
Or, wait... would that mean that they're no longer geeks?
Finally a video game your girlfriend will encourage you to play...
It's nice to see some gaming devices being made to help people with limited movement abilities.
Is tetris for the original GB. Hours and hours and hours of addictive fun, and fairly discrete (as in seperate) button presses.
That would work
They can call it "Tungsten". Oh wait....
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
New FlavorSleeves makes games even more addictive. Punish your child with a 30 day spinach patch.
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What's next? The GameBoy DS being given two tongue-controlled inputs so you and your date can get in a few practice rounds of "See Luigi the Cunning Linguist rescues the Perky Princess of Pr0n" before the main event? Will E3 2005 bring on the GameBoy DVDA?
I'll pass on the Zelda erotic fan fiction, sorry people, I don't do elves. But chicks in spacesuits, well, now you're talkin' my language. Bring on the Metroid Pr0ne!
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Now my wife will let me buy one!!!
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From the picture, it looks like they are using Charmed Lab's Xport development kit. Glad to see it being put to good use. Although you could use this product to pirate games hopefully Nintendo won't sue again. I just wish courts could clearly see the benefits of home-brew development tools.
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Now I hag calpal tunnel thyndrome in my tongue!
...this, coming from a guy who references fark.com in his header?
wow, how did you type that so quick ?
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Yet another computer adaptation of "Candyland".
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
We must have forgotten that the physically handicapped are incapable of having any sense of humor. On behalf of the physically-able, I apologize for our lack of sensitivity to our go-tard bretheren.
Oops.
Come to think of it...most ALL of them have been...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Who knows, maybe some games will be programmed to taste differently, like if you're playing Final Fantasy Tactics advance and one of your characters gets healed, a small dose of liquid or chemicals is released so it tastes like strawberries or chocolate. If one of your characters dies, citric acid would be sprayed in your eyes.
Like most are thinking, it's win-win. (Hey at least it wasn't a sex joke...)
Yup...
> probably never had to spend four hours lying on your kitchen floor trying to get back into wheelchair because you fucked up trying to open a jar of pickles,
First I was going to point out what a reactionary jackass you are and how the average person in a wheelchair probably read your post and thought "Wow, what's up *his* ass?" Then I read that sentence I quoted up there, called the wheelchair-bound dude in my office over, and we both laughed at it until we were crying. It's the "pickles" thing that makes it so funny, I think.
Oh, btw, Mike (the guy in the chair)said "I hear that shit all the time from people who think I need to be saved from 'normal' people. Hell, I'm in a wheelchair but that tool has no sense of humor. Between the two of us, I win."
Think about that.
why do dogs lick themselves?
because they don't have advanced gameboys.
The operating system should be called... CunnilingOS.
After 70 comments Roderick approached the comments page with excitement, for he had immediately come up with a witty, +5 FUNNY comment for the Gameboy Advance tongue controller story. Oh it was brilliant, so obvious and so incredibly witty
He paused a moment, silently making a prayer that nobody had thought of the "pR0n" implications for such a device, cackling with the sheer thought of the accolades raining down upon him he assured himself that he would be first to that punch.
Scrolling down the filthy cackle was replaced by a dismayed groan. 70 Demoralising comments regarding cunnalingus later he sighed and resigned himself to tell the harrowing story of how he was not as "original" as he had thought.
In the immortal words of Heath Ledger "Such is life"
With all of the greed in high-tech, its great to see some people actually making lives a bit better.
We must have forgotten that the physically handicapped are incapable of having any sense of humor. On behalf of the physically-able, I apologize for our lack of sensitivity to our go-tard bretheren.
There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I'll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there's nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It's like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go 'ooh, look at him, he's not able-bodied. I am, I'm prejudiced.' Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he's not, it's difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.
You should feel so very proud of your ability to express an entire paragraph of text without coming anywhere near making a point.
The ability to smile and/or laugh at just about anything is one of the only mental mechanisms that keep a lot of people sane. It's not the most noble thing in the world, but I'll be damned if I'm going to spend every day and night of every day feeling sorry for people who don't want my pity.
Socially, you're damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't when it comes to the 'differently-abled'. If your heart bleeds, you are given hostility because you're just overcompensating for something you 'just could not understand'. If you try to smile about it, you're given hostility for finding 'humour in the suffering of others'.
In conclusion, fuck everyone else and live your life. Try to feel good about yourself, and try to make others feel the same. Don't count on either one succeeding, though.
a little tongue-in-cheek to you? At least it was testefully done. It left a bad taste in my mouth though. The French version has a M rating I hear.
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Well, first off, it's a big assumption that I am not handicapped. Second, you assume that the handicapped cannot make jokes about their own conditions. Third, and more importantly, you would probably not laugh when a handicapped person does.
Believe me, the handicapped have good senses of humour. And I am well familiar with handicaps, both from having one myself and from having relatives and friends who do as well. I also volunteered teaching ASL to the deaf when I was younger. Believe me, most jokes lose nothing in translation to ASL, and some even gain something.
So relax, and quit thinking of us as needing your (useless) pity.
You can have it fast, accurate, or pretty. Pick any 2.
I remember a feature in the Nintendo Fun Club magazine (remember before Nintendo Power?) that showed a controller that strapped to your chest, was played with your chin, and you blew/sucked on a tube for the A/B buttons. There's a review from '89. There are also some photos although the one I remember was black and red (maybe just a prototype) and I don't see a tube in the photos...
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Cool! So when does, "Cunnilingus, Cunnilingus, Revolution!" ship?
Up.. Up.. down... down... left... right... down! *moan*
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You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
Glad to see someone else watches The Office. Though I think the quote is flying over people's heads here.
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If anyone is interested in the XPort FPGA and I/O Adaptor used in this project, there is a good article about it, in the May 2004 issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal. They use it as a spectrum analyzer, and said it's very easy to use. Almost any set of I/Os is possible, making it a super simple embedded platform.
I just read it this morning, and am thinking of getting it myself. Sadly, the article on the website is $$ to view. But, if you're interested in the device, it would be worth paying to view it.
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Dante Hicks: Hey, try not to [Play any Gameboy!] on the way through the parking lot!
Dante Hicks: My girlfriend's [Played 37 Gameboys]!
Customer with Diapers: In a row?
Dante Hicks: I'm stuck in this pit, working for less than a slave wages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has [Played 36 Gameboys].
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This is a great idea with a good heart behind it.
My aunt has MS and she is basically wheelchair bound and you have no idea how hard it is. She can barely function physically, requiring the aid of other people to help her do every day living things such as getting out of bed, going to the bathroom and transportation to and from work.
Great idea... I love seeing projects that help the folks that most people neglect and leave behind.
When they're apart of your family you really get to see the struggle of people who are wheel chair bound. Its a hard life and anything to improve their life experience is to be praised highly.
Bravo.
You know, this could help geeks out. Imagine if there was a game based on the ability to get your girl off -- it'd be great training and just think of the bragging rights you'd have: "I'm a level nine pussy eater!"
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Glad someone else remembers. It was called the NES hands free. Introduced in 1989, and was mostly distributed to the Starlight Foundation. Nintendo also sold them at cost to whoever wanted to order one for $120 each.
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.