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A fresh take on vibrating videogame controllers has been pitched to console manufacturers, with a pad that features haptic feedback through the thumbsticks. The prototype – from engineers at the University of Utah – pulls the skin of the user's thumbs, mimicking the recoil of a gun better than the standard vibration found in …

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  1. Khaptain Silver badge

    Sack Boy Game Pad

    Is it just me or does this game pad look like it was made by the same team as LBP.

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  2. Aaron Em

    Thumbstick vibration for gunfire?

    Suicide excepted, how do you pull a trigger with your thumb?

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    1. Euripides Pants
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      Re: Thumbstick vibration for gunfire?

      In "Shoot 'Em Up" Mr. Smith used a carrot to pull the trigger.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    THERE'S MORE TO LIFE

    than discussing a game controller.

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    1. Aaron Em
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      Of course there is

      for some people, at least. What's your excuse?

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    2. Kane
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      Re: THERE'S MORE TO LIFE

      Yet here you are, commenting on a page about game controllers.

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  4. jai

    "pulls the skin off the user's thumbs"

    the difference that mis-reading an extra 'f' can make...

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  5. MJI Silver badge

    Replicate using a gun

    Err I can think of better simulation of firing a gun.

    Gun controller

    You pull a trigger and shoot things

    Like a gun

    I don't have one but it looks cool

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