video game massage controller: more x-button please

October 5th, 2007 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

What would you say to a video game console that’s not controlled by a joystick, a mouse or even a Wii-mote, but instead by the relaxing touch of massage?

Massage Me Video Game Jacket

The Massage me jacket lets the person giving the massage get their game on while the person receiving the treatment gets to chill out. More intensive massage results in better game play, motivating the masseur to give a good rub down. According to the designer of the device “Otherwise wasted button-pushing energy is transformed into a massage and the addicted game player becomes an inexhaustible masseur.”

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Massage Me Video Game Jacket

Numerous pressure sensors are built into the jacket, converting massage into control signals for a video game console.

Since the jacket really just works in place of a traditional gamepad, it works with many off-the-shelf games. I’d imagine that “button-mashers” like fighting games are best, while first-person-shooters probably wouldn’t work all that well. I wonder if Dance Dance Revolution would work best if you walked on the person’s back?

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comments (3):

  1. the scholar says:

    hmmm… i think i know who would be doing the relaxing in our house. :D

  2. ragab mar3y says:

    I love massage

  3. Lee says:

    My only problem with that is someone would not want ME playing on their back.

    They’d be in more pain that before the game started!

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