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Device Reduces Stress While Gaming
Bayscribe writes "Vyro Games, a Dublin Ireland company, unveils a device today that forces you to relax while playing games. It is called a PiP, or "Personal Input Pod," and it measures things like the moisture in your hand to assess whether you're stressed. If you're showing signs of stress, your performance in a game deteriorates. If you relax, you do much better. The PiP communicates wirelessly with software on devices such as mobile phones, PCs or games consoles... If you relax, the dragon spreads its wings and flies. If not, it stumbles all over the place."
Yep! It's on now folks! Our competators are sitting in their bean-bag chairs and are completely relaxed. It's really exciting, two have even fallen asleep!
Wait, this is the most boring competition ever. I'm breaking for lunch.
I'll never be relaxed because my dragon ain't going nowhere no matter how relaxed I get.
1) Wire up the Microsoft headset with firmware which detects excessive swearing, racial slurs, and other anti-social behavior... ... and causes you to de-buff your damage and resistance if you're the one doing it, to the point where a butterfly flapping its wings in China has already killed you in Halo 3.
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4) Profit. And you just saved the sanity of the rest of the world, too.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
The dragon's cruising along.... crap he is getting lower. Oh NO DAMN IT! It's falling. I've got to get him back up. Come on, FLY. FLY YOU GOD DAMNED DRAGON. Ahhh crap! ...
Now, I've got to go load up an FPS to releave the stress I generated keeping that damned thing flying.
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What does the dragon do when I throw my controller up the side of my monitor? Die a horrible death?
A job might be a better place to use this than video games. I know I'm a lot more stressed at work than when I'm playing DS. Clippy could start throwing up on your screen if you're working too hard.
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Serious gamers all keep kleenex right by their computers to, uh, dry their sweaty palms.
Hmmm, this sounds interesting. Let's give it a try!
Hey! This is great! I feel SO relaxed. Oops. Oh-oh. Oh Noes!!! My dragon she be stumbling!!! I gots to RELAX! RIGHT NOW !!!!!! ARGHHHH!!!!!!!
Doesn't seem to help much. :/
The next model will monitor your chat for stress.
"You cheater! Noobs! You homos! He's glitching! You"
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Completely useless. How will this help anyone game?
Unless you're into those kind of Barbie-Pony games... But even then I'm not so sure.
This is the first interesting piece of technology I've seen come from my country, yet still it's not even worth developing.
They say violent video games cause violent behavior. I'm skeptical, I played Manhunt to the end and I haven't killed any real people yet... :D
But maybe the key difference is that I DID get nervous in certain tense scenes. Are we really sure we want to train people to be able to kill a bunch of people, decapitate enemies, stalk people etc. without getting an elevated heart rate? Myabe this would be a great serial killer training device.
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Does this mean we can expect to see Fatal1ty branded anti-perspirant on the market soon?
A dragon flight control scheme worse than Lair
More music, fewer hits
Another thing to worry about while playing games. I'm already worried to death that Shamblers are going to get me, now I have to worry that the Shamblers can tell I'm worried. You've just given video games the ability to smell fear.
-tyfighter