Tongue-Controlled Gameboy Advance SP Launched 248
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.'"
Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing but bonuses all around on this one... /P
Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! (Score:5, Funny)
I probably shoudn't have posted this...
Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! (Score:2)
(Ok, this remark might have made a few guys gay.)
Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! (Score:5, Funny)
> 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.
Re:That's nice. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That's nice. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's nice. (Score:5, Funny)
Oops.
Re:That's nice. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:That's nice. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:That's nice. (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:That's nice. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:That's nice. (Score:2)
Parent=flamebait? (Score:2)
Re:Tongue operated... (Score:4, Funny)
Come to think of it...most ALL of them have been...
Re:Tongue operated... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That's nice. (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.
Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Wait'll the porn industry gets hold of this! (Score:2)
Serious thinking to do now... (Score:5, Funny)
A tongue controller. Hmm... does anyone know if Virtual Valerie 2 [gamefaqs.com] has been ported to the Gameboy Advance SP? I may yet buy one of these, assuming my medical plan covers lockjaw.
obligatory canine reference (Score:2, Funny)
because they don't have advanced gameboys.
Re:obligatory canine reference (Score:2)
In all seriousness (Score:2)
The name... (Score:2)
I swear I am not going to make a Catholic joke here.
damn it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:damn it (Score:4, Funny)
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. :)
Re:damn it (Score:3, Funny)
You may know where you are, but surely you must be new here ;-)
(PS Your post was right)
Re:damn it (Score:2)
So will men who know what they're doing.
Re:damn it (Score:2)
That would imply that people who read slashdot have non-inflatable female sex partners to practice on. Kind of a stretch.
Re:damn it (Score:2)
Re:damn it (Score:2)
Re:damn it (Score:2)
Tongue-controlled? (Score:2, Informative)
I really can't think of any games (other than RPGs) that don't require multiple buttons pressed simultaneously.
The only one I can think of that's also fun... (Score:2, Insightful)
That would work
Re:The only one I can think of that's also fun... (Score:2)
I hear they have one bad ass tuba player....
Re:The only one I can think of that's also fun... (Score:2)
If I had a quadrapalegic friend/family member/self I would get one for them.
Coming to adult stores near you (Score:5, Funny)
Opinion from customers: My ex-boyfriend bought the new gameboy. Now we are together again! Thank you Nintendo!
Re:Coming to adult stores near you (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Coming to adult stores near you (Score:2, Funny)
but I'm a master debater.
This is slashdot, you're preaching to the choir.
Argh! (Score:3, Funny)
Must make funny before brains run out of ears!
No jokes please (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No jokes please (Score:2)
> Alright, porn industry jokes are fine.
I saw a porn movie once about two lesbians. One of them had her foot amputated just above her ankle. She was using it on the other one as a dildo.
Great news for geeks (Score:4, Funny)
Or, wait... would that mean that they're no longer geeks?
Re:Great news for geeks (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Great news for geeks (Score:2)
Re:Great news for geeks (Score:2)
Re:Great news for geeks (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Great news for geeks (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory Clerks References (Score:3, Funny)
Dante Hicks: My girlfriend's [Played 37 Gameboys]!
Customer with Diapers: In a row?
Dante Hicks: I'm stuck in this pit, working for less than a slave wages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has [Played 36 Gameboys].
Randal Graves: 37
Re:Great news for geeks (Score:2)
Probably, but going down will never catch on in the geek world...unless you can enter your initials after you get a high score.
Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finally! (Score:2)
My great uncle had quadriplegia... (Score:5, Interesting)
It's nice to see some gaming devices being made to help people with limited movement abilities.
Re:My great uncle had quadriplegia... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My great uncle had quadriplegia... (Score:4, Insightful)
The Nouse (Score:2)
Mouse movement by tracking the nose, mouse click by blinking.
Finally... (Score:2)
Re:Finally... (Score:2)
-Jesse
Re:Finally... (Score:3, Funny)
Stud? Ring?
Wait a minute.... why the hell am I asking for sex advice from someone on Slashdot!?
Call it "Tungsten" (Score:3, Funny)
Tetris addicting? Try it with strawberry. (Score:5, Funny)
What's next, GameBoy DVDA? (Score:3, Funny)
What's next? The GameBoy DS being given two tongue-controlled inputs so you and your date can get in a few practice rounds of "See Luigi the Cunning Linguist rescues the Perky Princess of Pr0n" before the main event? Will E3 2005 bring on the GameBoy DVDA?
I'll pass on the Zelda erotic fan fiction, sorry people, I don't do elves. But chicks in spacesuits, well, now you're talkin' my language. Bring on the Metroid Pr0ne!
Re:What's next, GameBoy DVDA? (Score:2)
Bring on the Metroid Pr0ne!
Uh... you want METROIDS..... PRONE?
You are one sick, sick mofo my friend. The metroids were not, in my book... anything I'd want to have prone...
Think tank says ... don't buy it! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Think tank says ... don't buy it! (Score:3, Funny)
Don't forget that they weren't orginal ideas, so we shouldn't even be giving them any points for that either.
Cool... (Score:5, Funny)
New form-factor (Score:2)
it's worse (Score:2)
Charmed Labs Xport (Score:5, Interesting)
Ftupid gameboy! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ftupid gameboy! (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't that be "calpal tungle thyndrome"?
A new generation (Score:2)
So now you can lick your opponent? (Score:3, Funny)
Some of the proposed game titles. (Score:5, 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".
Re:Some of the proposed game titles. (Score:2)
Tastes like Link (Score:5, Funny)
Like most are thinking, it's win-win. (Hey at least it wasn't a sex joke...)
Tastes like Ink (Score:2)
This would include the eye-enabled version of Pacman. Blinky makes you blink, Inky squirts ink in your eye, and the worst of them, Pinky, gives you a bad case of pink-eye.
no simultaneous button pressing? (Score:2)
Irony (Score:2)
Jimmy? (Score:2)
OS name (Score:3, Funny)
Man what a bummer (Score:5, Funny)
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"
God bless these people... (Score:3, Insightful)
Damn (Score:2)
doesn't this article seem... (Score:5, Funny)
Direct neural interfaces? (Score:2)
There were multiple handicapped NES controllers (Score:2, Informative)
Mod me redundant. (Score:2)
My first reaction?
'Hey, they're going the wrong direction!'
Universally compatable tech is always better.. (Score:2)
Cool! So when... (Score:5, Funny)
Up.. Up.. down... down... left... right... down! *moan*
Charmed Labs XPort 2.0 (Score:2, Interesting)
I just read it this morning, and am thinking of getting it myself. Sadly, the article on the website is $$ to view. But, if you're interested in the device, it would be worth paying to view it.
Dag, yo. (Score:2)
What about us? (Score:2)
Or tongue builders?
Isn't it enough that they already get the good spaces...
I can't resist. (Score:2)
This is a wonderful thing... (Score:2, Informative)
My aunt has MS and she is basically wheelchair bound and you have no idea how hard it is. She can barely function physically, requiring the aid of other people to help her do every day living things such as getting out of bed, going to the bathroom and transportation to and from work.
Great idea... I love seeing projects that help the folks that most people neglect and leave behind.
When they're apart of your family you really get to see the struggle of peo
Darn it all! Beaten to the punch (Score:2)
Gotta Lick em All!
Hmm (Score:2)
RPG/Strategy gamers will win out. (Score:2)
Re:Does it come in different flavors? (Score:2)
# Red GBA SP = Cherry
# Black GBA SP = Licorice
# Blue GBA SP = Blueberry
# Pink GBA SP = Strawberry
# Platnium GBA SP = ?????
I think the platinum will just stick to your tongue when its cold - you wouldn't notice any flavour.
Re:Little Stephen Hawking (Score:2)
Stephen Hawking [wikipedia.org] "...was first diagnosed [with Moter Neurone Disease [wikipedia.org]] at the age 21, shortly before his first marriage. It's a progressive illness, which only eventually left him in his current state.
Re:Has existed for at least 15 years (Score:4, Informative)