Yoda Replaced as Jedi Instructor by Ping Pong Ball
Posted at 11:30 AM Jan 09, 2009
Meet the Force Trainer. It's makers would have you believe that you can use it to sharpen your "Force skills," by learning to manipulate--solely through the power of your
The Force Trainer (expected to be priced at $90 to $100) comes with a headset that uses brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and Luke Skywalker's abilities in the Star Wars films.Jesus, it's terrifying how much I would have wanted one of these when I was a kid. I almost want to beat myself up retroactively. Of course, as a grown-up, I know the feeling of being one with an all-powerful, all-encompassing energy that flows through us, surrounds us and binds the energy together is much cheaper to attain:
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In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in a simplified version of EEG medical tests, and the circuitry translates it to physical action. If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower.
A state of deep concentration is needed to achieve a Force-full effect. "When you concentrate, it activates the training remote," says Frank Adler of toymaker Uncle Milton Industries, which is creating the Trainer. "There is a flow of air that will move the (ball). You can actually feel like you are in a zone."
Mmm. All-encompassing! (Via Geekologie)
Comments
Reading the title of this post, I was really really really hoping it would turn out to be a FFF.
Posted 01/09/2009 at 11:03:03 AMDestined to become a water pipe, that Force Trainer is.
Posted 01/09/2009 at 01:01:38 PMI actually want this, if only so I can achieve Tetsuo level psychic abilities and launch the ball like a bullet.
Posted 01/09/2009 at 03:49:34 PMThe Force Trainer manufacturer also has an Indiana Jones booby trap with a idol that shoots "darts" at intruders--why didn't they make all this stuff when I was a kid?
http://www.unclemilton.com/IndianaJones/
Posted 01/10/2009 at 07:41:03 PMThe Force Trainer manufacturer also has an Indiana Jones booby trap with a idol that shoots "darts" at intruders--why didn't they make all this stuff when I was a kid?
http://www.unclemilton.com/IndianaJones/
Posted 01/10/2009 at 07:41:32 PMOh God, man. Cutty Sark??? No wonder you're always so angry. That stuff is poison.
Time to step up and drink the good stuff. Start charging more for ads or something.
Posted 01/11/2009 at 05:04:19 PM