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Get Zapped While Playing Video Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the getting-tased-for-fun-and-profit dept.

itwbennett writes "Force feedback in video games (when the game controller shakes and vibrates in response to an experience in the game) has been around for a while now. But a research project on display at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris this week takes it a step further, administering small electric shocks."

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  1. Old, boring, uninspired... by gweihir · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do the same old idiotic ideas creep up again? Does nobody do any research before presenting their rather small ideas as "new" and "groundbreaking"?

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