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eldavojohn writes "ThinkGeek (Owned by same parent corporation as Slashdot) has recently started selling WiiHelms which allows the user to effortlessly play the Wii without tirelessly moving their arms around. An added foot pedal controls the A, B button pushing to minimize activity. According to the article, "After extensive scientific study it was found that manipulating muscles in your neck for 10 minutes uses 64% less energy than waving your arms about like a lunatic." Indeed, after watching the demonstration video, I myself will order four or five — I'm sick of flailing my arms around like a chump. Don't forget to check out ThinkGeek's other offerings today including inhalable caffeine sticks, the 8-bit tie and the most amazing T-shirt ever."
I wake up with a raging hangover to see this.
First thing that came to mind was "what will these lazy motherfuckers come up with next", then I remembered to check the date. Doh!
-William
God is everything science has yet to explain.
Piranhaz? That's an April fool.
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Remember: You'll actually get Sharks with frickin' laser beams when you order those:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/rcbattlefish.sh
But are the helmets tested or will they fly off and break your tvs?
This idea is doomed to fail from the beginning. What a fucking crock. For one, the entire point of the Nintendo Wii is that you move your arms around. The entire point. It's intended for grannies and moms who wouldn't normally be interested, so they pick up the remote and it's just like controlling the television for them. How anybody can not get this is just beyond me. And secondly, all this overuse of neck muscles is going to lead to two things: sore necks and lawsuits. That's right, these chumps are going to get their asses handed to them in court when this thing hits the mass market.
It's not even as if this hasn't happened before! Anybody remember the Nintendo VirtualBoy? That VR piece of shit that killed a couple of people and left about a dozen blind in one eye? It was the same thing with that: it was going to make it easier to control games, just by creating some stupid helmet. My brother actually got one of those for Christmas the year they came out. Of course, he was really stoked when he saw it, because hey, VIRTUAL REALITY and all that. So he rips the box apart, quickly figures out how to put it on and get it working, and there, he's off. He was just starting to play, when suddenly to my surprise he did the mash. He did the monster mash. The monster mash. It was a graveyard smash. He did the mash. It caught on in a flash. The monster mash. He did the monster mash.
you still have to move your foot?!? I'm way too lazy for that. They just need to come out with Wii games that play themselves for me!
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She'd get it. She might not want it, but she'd get it.
meh.
That's.... it's... wow, that's kinda wiitarded.
Geeks will again be able to play games without losing weight or gaining muscle tone. The geek world has been saved.
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Let me be the first to say that this thing is a bitch to try to play Zelda with...
who cares about wiimote straps breaking when you could get whiplash trying to perform a helm splitter...
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Ok how many people actually want one of those.... so just me then...
Come on, people, it's April Fool's day. Look at the rest of the stuff offered!
Has anyone seen my parent? I lost them taking a wii.
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C'mon people, no-one picked up on the reference yet...?
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Ian
of playing the Wii if you arent moving your arms around?
There still hasn't been a pi reference in the Slashrating box yet!
Hold on... I just need to go and feed my pig, and perhaps trim the feathers on his wings.
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
Which they claim is "Now shipping!" :-)
I've got a brilliant idea! Why not just use a mouse and a keyboard! That way you could move even less...oh wait...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
I read the headline and thought that Wilhelms were going on sale -- and I wanted my own copy of the famous sound effect!
i wonder when they come up with a game you would actually play while sleeping.. the helmet would be perfect. or attached controllers to your limbs, if you are active.. eye movement tracker. a massively multiplayer haphazard game, which would probably be awesomely funny to watch.
Fuck off, fucking asshole.
Get a PS3 then you wont have to wave arms or head at all...
The reference is Nintendo On.
Still an interesting idea. But how this makes you look like less of an idiot than flailing your arms around is beyond me.
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To someone with wrist problems that is. Real fscking funny.
I can see many sad, sad couch potatoes when realizing that this is an April's Fool and not an item that does allow you to play the Wii without moving your arms :)
...so that I can play as Kaiser WiiHelm II.
*ducks*
From TFA: the average gaming geek is just not up to the strenuous task of vigorous arm movement for longer than 10 minutes
Yeah... I'm not so sure about that...
I could take or leave the tie but if they made an actual version of that alarm clock that donated money to an organisation of your choosing if you snoozed I'd consider getting one. (Only if I thought it was secure etc...but still - it would be cool)
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Did no one see this: Availability: Likely Everything from the email has availabilities like this.
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TIE http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/8-bit-tie.shtml
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OK I'm next in line, can I get modded insightful for no reason?
I've been meaning to build myself a nice, solid Henry Rollins-style neck for years. Now I can. Thank you, kind thinkgeek!
Stop the brainwash
I have ankylosing spondylitis, you insensitive clod!
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The fact that all of the joke news stories are tagged "aprilfools" makes it a fair bit easier to avoid falling for any of them.
Aww, man. I really wanted one of the 8-bit ties too.
Just glancing over Slashdot, I thought I read it as this word.
If this helmet really existed, it could get people without limbs into gaming.
This shit seems like a good product, if you target it to the right market.
Brain is not a muscle. Nor it is tightly fixed to the skull.
It floats in a fluid in the skull, the attachment it has to the skull are through tiny veins.
if you use your head to move something in a continuous way, you will be shaking your brain in the skull fluid like in a glass of water. in the long run it will make nausea. in the worst run, tiny veins will pop, causing headache, or in extreme cases more serious results.
whereas making instant movements with the head is much more dangerous, it instantly pops your tiny veins.
use your arms. you need the exercise.
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Look at her room it is all white. She has a helmet with glowing buttons. She was obviously playing some Wii and the CPU sucked her into the system and she has to compete in Wii sports to save her program and get out. The bad program is obviously a PS3 program. She Wiill outsmart the PS3 program with her sassyness and escape.
Were you really having any trouble without reading the tags? Not much subtlety here.
Plus, the tagging system does its job well: the stories didn't get tagged "funny".
See, she's wearing a helmet. Retards sometimes wear helmets.
Retard Helmet + Wii Controller + You = WIITARDED.