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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.'"

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  1. Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Funny
    As a bonus, no one will want to swipe your Gameboy and play it, either!

    Nothing but bonuses all around on this one... /P

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    1. Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! by Lemmeoutada+Collecti · · Score: 5, Funny

      It certainly gives new meaning to "Licking" your opponents... just hope you don't whip their a**... that could be bad, m'kay

      I probably shoudn't have posted this...

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    2. Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The porn industry is way ahead of this.

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    3. Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! by multipartmixed · · Score: 4, Funny

      > It certainly gives new meaning to "Licking" your opponents...
      > just hope you don't whip their a**...

      I was playing Quake (or was it Doom? -- LONG time ago!!) against a Russian friend of mine once. He had the rocket launcher and was hiding in a little cave waaay up on the first level (you know the one -- kill two grunts, go around a square wall into a room with an S curve and acid pools; look up and left).

      Anyhow, he saw me running by, and told me he was going to lick my ass.

      I laughed so hard, the little bastard actually managed to shoot me.

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  2. Serious thinking to do now... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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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  3. damn it by millahtime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn it!!! Lesbians will have a leg up on these games to start.

    1. Re:damn it by sohojim · · Score: 4, Funny
      "lesbians will have a leg up from the start"

      I'm sure your girlfriend will be thrilled to hear your view that lesbians are the only lovers who need to use their tongues.

      And yes, I know where I am. :)

  4. Coming to adult stores near you by SharpFang · · Score: 5, Funny

    New Gameboy Adult-themed GB games! The Frenchman! The Cunning Lingus!

    Opinion from customers: My ex-boyfriend bought the new gameboy. Now we are together again! Thank you Nintendo!

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  5. Argh! by Slicebo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too many jokes in head!

    Must make funny before brains run out of ears!

  6. Great news for geeks by Radon+Knight · · Score: 3, Funny
    Couple years of practice with these machines and they'll become super-popular with the women!

    Or, wait... would that mean that they're no longer geeks?

    1. Re:Great news for geeks by millahtime · · Score: 5, Funny

      Couple years of practice with these machines and they'll become super-popular with the women!

      Or, wait... would that mean that they're no longer geeks?


      No, you'll be really popular with the ladies but they won't tell any of their friends about you. You can have them and their friends and none will be the wiser. muahahahaha

    2. Re:Great news for geeks by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Couple years of practice with these machines and they'll become super-popular with the women!
      Or, wait... would that mean that they're no longer geeks?

      Geek - eyes closed. Pale. Sweating. He rubs his hands on his knees repeatedly.
      Hot Babe: How many times have you licked one of these?
      Geek: Thirty-eight.... simulated.
      Hot Babe: How many real ones?
      Geek: Well... one. Including this one.

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  7. Finally! by Vatara · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally a video game your girlfriend will encourage you to play...

  8. My great uncle had quadriplegia... by ImTwoSlick · · Score: 5, Interesting
    And he used to kick my butt in Atari 2600 video games. He had very limited use of his hands, and could only hold the controller, while moving the joystick with his chin.

    It's nice to see some gaming devices being made to help people with limited movement abilities.

    1. Re:My great uncle had quadriplegia... by nycsubway · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'd like to see more eye-tracking software available to people for use with games. For quadralegics or for people with limited mobility of their extremities, eye-tracking would be pretty useful. I did some work with eye-tracking in college.

  9. Tetris addicting? Try it with strawberry. by xmuskrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    New FlavorSleeves makes games even more addictive. Punish your child with a 30 day spinach patch.

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  10. Think tank says ... don't buy it! by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't buy this product. The Alexis de Tongueville Institute has released an independent, objective, un-biased, and totally honest study which concludes that you should only buy Xbox video game hardware, and that video game products from Sony and Nintendo are directly responsible for terrorism and the collapse of the global economy.

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  11. Cool... by toupsie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now my wife will let me buy one!!!

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  12. Charmed Labs Xport by morcheeba · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  13. Ftupid gameboy! by farnerup · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I hag calpal tunnel thyndrome in my tongue!

    1. Re:Ftupid gameboy! by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now I hag calpal tunnel thyndrome in my tongue!

      Wouldn't that be "calpal tungle thyndrome"?

  14. Re:That's nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    wow, how did you type that so quick ?

  15. Some of the proposed game titles. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jar Jar Apple Heist

    Gene Simmons' "Groupie Invaders" KISS-tie-in game.

    Mick Jagger "Start Me Up"

    Dr Tongue's 3-D House of Games

    Yet another computer adaptation of "Candyland".

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  16. Re:That's nice. by brotherscrim · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  17. Re:Tongue operated... by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Funny
    I dunno. I once had a girlfriend that was 'tongue operated'.

    Come to think of it...most ALL of them have been...

    :-)

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  18. Tastes like Link by Altima(BoB) · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...)

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  19. Re:That's nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful



    > 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.

  20. Man what a bummer by RoderickMcDougall · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

  21. Re:That's nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  22. Re:That's nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  23. doesn't this article seem... by ferrocene · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  24. Re:That's nice. by Lemmeoutada+Collecti · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  25. Cool! So when... by TrebleJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool! So when does, "Cunnilingus, Cunnilingus, Revolution!" ship?

    Up.. Up.. down... down... left... right... down! *moan*

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  26. Re:That's nice. by plastik55 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Glad to see someone else watches The Office. Though I think the quote is flying over people's heads here.

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  27. Re:Tongue operated... by lpret · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  28. Re:Has existed for at least 15 years by PyroMosh · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.