Physically-Challenged Gamer Hacks Together Custom PS3 Controller 50
Destructoid has a neat post about a gamer whose condition prevents him from using a standard video game controller. With the help of a company called GimpGear, which markets devices for people with limited mobility, he designed and built a custom input device that makes use of fingers, toes, and even sips or puffs of air to control his favorite games. Pictures and a video of the setup are both available in the post.
How? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:"GimpGear" FTW (Score:5, Interesting)
The best way to fight a derogatory term is to take it back. A group trying to run away from a word with negative connotations is simply running on a treadmill, each new euphemism becoming an insult in a few years. (e.g. Retarded -> Mentally Disabled -> Differently Abled etc.)
My brother is severely physically disabled (oh no! that's the not the politcally correct way of saying it any more!) and playing online video games has given him a freedom and confidence I've never seen in him. When he gets on teamspeak, he's just one more of the guys. He's not the greatest gameplayer in the world, but he doesn't let the side down in a five man instance, for example.
He doesn't play on Xbox Live! though. In his words 'Those guys are retards'.
Re:"GimpGear" FTW (Score:5, Interesting)
I know a person born with no arms who says she isn't handicapped or disabled, since she never had arms in the first place so didn't "lose" physical abilities, does everything (and I mean everything) with her feet, and knows no other way of doing things.
Re:"GimpGear" FTW (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm a giant, so technically as retarded physically as someone with an extra ear/arm.. BUT I did find the PS3 controller would of been better suited if I had tiny flippers instead of huge man hands.
The 360 is the only way I can play consoles with my big hands.. the ps3 was blatantly made for tiny little girl hands (I blame the maker - but do I mean Sony or God?).