Joydick Atari game controller

Here's a NSFW video about the Joydick, "a wearable haptic device for controlling video gameplay based on realtime male masturbation. Through the use of a carefully designed strap-on interface, the user’s penis is converted into a joystick capable of moving the character onscreen in all four cardinal directions. For games requiring the fire button, a separate ring can be worn which converts hand-strokes into button presses." (Thanks, Becky!)

[#1 posted by ZoopyFunk, February 9, 2009 2:15 PM]

An excellent post to follow 12-year old girl mistaken for hooker.

LAMEDASHO Stupidest product ever. Not wonderful, IMO.

[#2 posted by ill lich, February 9, 2009 2:18 PM]

Wait. . . you slip your god-given joystick inside it? How the hell are you supposed to improve eye-hand coordination if you're going blind?!

[#3 posted by ZoopyFunk, February 9, 2009 2:20 PM]

When TinyNibbles and BB post the same thing on the same day, does that mean the earth is about to split?

[#4 posted by Nawel, February 9, 2009 2:25 PM]

What is LAMEDASHO?

It would be interesting to read a psychoanalyst view on this thing.

Anyway, let's take this with a sense of humor.

[#5 posted by Mark Frauenfelder, February 9, 2009 2:28 PM]

It's a zoopyfunkalicious way to spell lame-o!

[#6 posted by Antinous / Moderator, February 9, 2009 2:30 PM]

When do we get a car that works this way?

[#7 posted by valdis, February 9, 2009 2:34 PM]

@6: "When do we get a car that works this way?"

What, that's NOT how they control those cars with the hydraulics that bounce up and down and up and down?

[#8 posted by StRevAlex, February 9, 2009 2:37 PM]

Perfect, considering that playing video games is pretty much masturbation anyway.

[#9 posted by Gambrinous, February 9, 2009 2:41 PM]

Some people have too much time on their hands... Hands I hope they wash after. :|

[#10 posted by Shane, February 9, 2009 2:42 PM]

As someone who browses from work and home (where little mutants lurk) I politely request a different screengrab or alternate image be substituted.

Thanks!

[#11 posted by Chas44, February 9, 2009 2:57 PM]

eBay Atari 2600 sales now up by 300%.

[#12 posted by Scuba SM, February 9, 2009 2:58 PM]

Think this will change the focus from speed runs to marathon runs?

[#13 posted by inness, February 9, 2009 3:17 PM]

OHGREATANDTHANX, Frauenfelder! Second week on the new job, first day to (surreptitiously) check in at my No. 1 website, and I get this paradoxical post with a NSFW warning sporting a perky lil' NSFW image! ROFLMAO! Ah, heck. Better so than not, sez I. Oh, and horribly SAD product.

[#14 posted by cotylynn, February 9, 2009 3:44 PM]

Ha, I want this.

[#15 posted by mc, February 9, 2009 3:47 PM]

Do they have an accelerometer based masturbation app for the iPhone yet?

[#16 posted by semiotix, February 9, 2009 3:48 PM]

All my friends laughed at me when they threw those Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero parties and I had no dance or music skills...

...well I'll show them now!

[#17 posted by bjacques, February 9, 2009 4:17 PM]

Wasn't this in a Cherry Poptart comic awhile back?

[#18 posted by merreborn, February 9, 2009 5:58 PM]

Unfortunately, boingboing does not determine the screencap shown on the embedded player -- that's up to youtube.

Boingboing's only option, re: removing said screencap from the homepage, would be removing the embedded player entirely.

[#19 posted by Spikeles, February 9, 2009 6:29 PM]

If you use Firefox, get an addon called Flashblock. It replaces the entire flash movie with a big play button, so you don't see the actual flash object( and therefore no NSFW preview images ) till you click play.

[#20 posted by A New Challenger, February 9, 2009 6:37 PM]

Centipede is all well and good, but there are other games that would be more appropriate for this demo, IMO.

[#21 posted by l'elk!, February 9, 2009 7:23 PM]

i prefer the power glove.

[#22 posted by ymr049c, February 9, 2009 9:59 PM]

This is one of those jokes that is (maybe) funny to tell your friends when you think of it, but doesn't hold up for repeating. Without some hook to take it further, a big gong.

[#23 posted by deadpanwalking, February 9, 2009 11:03 PM]

Using this device, the game of Centipede at first is kind of fun. Then it gets very fun. Then very very fun. Then suddenly, not so fun anymore...

[#24 posted by Takuan, February 9, 2009 11:08 PM]

Mr.Garrison already designed the car like this.

Anyways, what's the point of a game control that never lets you get a higher score than 30?

[#25 posted by devophill, February 10, 2009 1:28 AM]

ATTN: Boing Boing is NSFW.

That is all.

[#26 posted by kmoser, February 10, 2009 5:52 AM]

There was a game for the Commodore 64 called Stroker [NSFW] which had a similar principle, only without the specialized hardware.

[#27 posted by Matt Staggs, February 10, 2009 6:18 AM]

Any chance you could put this video after a jump? I'm no prude....but my employers I can't vouch for.

[#28 posted by gtron, February 10, 2009 8:49 AM]

the vid-game industry comes full circle (-jerk). wankers.

[#29 posted by Anonymous, February 10, 2009 9:06 AM]

This is clearly an aid for quitting masturbation. In time, the user will associate masturbation with the cringe inducing thought of having to play Atari 2600, and will quit.

[#30 posted by chunk, February 10, 2009 9:38 AM]

wow. minutes of fun. get a date.

[#31 posted by Anonymous, February 10, 2009 9:56 AM]

That's just a bunch of retro junk. We need the wiinis and the wiigina!

[#32 posted by Phikus, February 10, 2009 11:52 AM]

Spikeles@19: Don't you mean Flashcock?

Anybody remember the iBrator? Added a whole new meaning to "She Comes In Colors" Rolling Stones soundtrack to the original lollipop iMac commercials.

[#33 posted by techfever, February 19, 2009 7:56 AM]

OMG, this is just to cool :) And for those joydick fans that wanna read this in German ... here u go: http://www.techfieber.de/2009/02/10/do-it-yourself-joydick-der-penis-joystick/

[#34 posted by dainel, February 24, 2009 9:42 PM]

False advertising. In the video, the user is clearly controlling the device with his hand.