Comments on: Philips to blow gamers, literally http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/philips-to-blow-gamers-literally Almost two steps ahead of technology Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/philips-to-blow-gamers-literally/comment-page-1#comment-2199 Sean Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:52:03 +0000 http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/philips-to-blow-gamers-literally/#comment-2199 @FBachofner: It might last longer then smell-vision but with the ever changing world of gaming, who knows. I still use my original 8-bit Nintendo and my MAME machines, so a system like this is of no real use to me. If I want to smell something nice, I go outside :) @FBachofner: It might last longer then smell-vision but with the ever changing world of gaming, who knows.

I still use my original 8-bit Nintendo and my MAME machines, so a system like this is of no real use to me.

If I want to smell something nice, I go outside :)

]]> By: FBachofner http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/philips-to-blow-gamers-literally/comment-page-1#comment-2192 FBachofner Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:47:48 +0000 http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/philips-to-blow-gamers-literally/#comment-2192 I wonder whether this will have a longer shelf life than "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-o-vision" rel="nofollow">smell-o-vision</a>?" I wonder whether this will have a longer shelf life than “smell-o-vision?”

]]> By: Luke http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/philips-to-blow-gamers-literally/comment-page-1#comment-2168 Luke Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:47:50 +0000 http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/philips-to-blow-gamers-literally/#comment-2168 ... Perhaps it would be different if I experienced it myself, but this kind of thing just seems so totally pointless to me, especially that ambient light thing. Again, in real life it may have a point, but in advertisements it just seems to run the gamut from "distracting" to "disgusting" (note the vomit-like color and the emergency pylons in the picture above). The fans also seem like they would not only be pointless, but also hard to synchronize with every game (either the programmers would have to program their own games to cooperate with it, which seems unlikely to happen on a universal level, or Philips has to make their own software to extrapolate the proper fan speeds somehow; I'm not much of a programmer, I'll admit, but that seems even more impossible than getting everyone to program fan instructions into their games). As for a subwoofer, well, I already have one. And the wrist-rumbler? I'd rather not have my hand shaken during a tense level of Tyrian 2k, thank you... …

Perhaps it would be different if I experienced it myself, but this kind of thing just seems so totally pointless to me, especially that ambient light thing. Again, in real life it may have a point, but in advertisements it just seems to run the gamut from “distracting” to “disgusting” (note the vomit-like color and the emergency pylons in the picture above).

The fans also seem like they would not only be pointless, but also hard to synchronize with every game (either the programmers would have to program their own games to cooperate with it, which seems unlikely to happen on a universal level, or Philips has to make their own software to extrapolate the proper fan speeds somehow; I’m not much of a programmer, I’ll admit, but that seems even more impossible than getting everyone to program fan instructions into their games).

As for a subwoofer, well, I already have one. And the wrist-rumbler? I’d rather not have my hand shaken during a tense level of Tyrian 2k, thank you…

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