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Author Topic: Wearable subwoofers Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-03-2016 10:58 PM                     If this isn't about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I can barely wait at the idea of "feeling the bass" in my wrist. I wonder which X-Treme system is going to hand these out instead of building the sound system properly. The Basslet YouTube video  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-04-2016 02:13 AM                        WHAT. THE. FUCK? They didn't explain how it works. I mean... they showed how the mechanism works, sure. But they never explained how having a vibrating slab of plastic on YOUR WRIST equates to the feeling of a subwoofer. Nobody ever says "Hey remember at the theater when we were watching U-571 starring Bon Jovi and that submarine did that thing and shook the whole room?" "Yeah dude I sure do remember that! My wrist was buzzing like crazy!" "Yeah and after that we went to the Bon Jovi concert since they gave away free tickets with the movie and every time whatever random drummer he was using that night hit the kick my wrists were totally in the moment!" "Yeah mine too broski! And then suddenly the entire audience forgot that Bon Jovi existed so he vanished into thin air which made that sweet dropping deep sound that every action trailer likes to use? I felt that in my chest it was so powerful! Haha just kidding I only felt it in my wrists because that's how humans hear bass." "Sweet dude Imma donate over $300,000 to something that can give me that experience again." "Did you ever notice how dumb we are?"  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-04-2016 04:41 AM                     No! You don't wear it on your wrist! You're supposed to put it down your pants!  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 07-04-2016 05:59 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer And then suddenly the entire audience forgot that Bon Jovi existed so he vanished into thin air ... only to resurface on DirecTV commercials.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-04-2016 08:33 AM                        This is the scary part: quote: $383,325 pledged of $56,785 goal They've brought in almost six times their goal!?! With 20 days to go.  |  IP: Logged Mike Schulz Expert Film Handler Posts: 122 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: May 2007 posted 07-04-2016 10:21 AM                     I.....actually want to try this thing now It definitely seems like a scam and couldn't possibly work but I have to give credit to their marketing team. By the time I scrolled through to the bottom of the Kickstarter page I went from laughing at the absurdity of the concept to actually wanting to put one on to see what it actually does. There is no way I'm going to spend $100 or more for that privilege though.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-04-2016 11:37 AM                     quote: No! You don't wear it on your wrist! You're supposed to put it down your pants! Randy, I think you are confused by this product. You must be thinking of The Buttkicker. (Full disclosure, I've experienced the buttkicker and it's so pathetically fake. Maybe, maybe, MAYBE if they were turned down to where you could just BARELY feel them in the seat on the biggest scenes it might be passable, but nobody installing these is willing to even try such a setting.) quote: Martin McCaffery This is the scary part: They've brought in almost six times their goal!?! With 20 days to go. Well there is after all a fetish for everything. Maybe the pledges intend on strapping them around their boys instead of their wrist.  |  IP: Logged Rex Oliver Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Greenville, NC. USA Registered: Apr 2013 posted 07-05-2016 01:57 AM                     Maybe this device should be provided for those folks that have those ANNOYING "Boom Cars"! Gets bad when you are trying to listen to your cars radio and have to try to dance along with someone elses.  |  IP: Logged Marlon Martins Film Handler Posts: 78 From: Torres, RS, Brazil Registered: Apr 2015 posted 07-05-2016 07:10 AM                     this one looks much more appealing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCqQWn-2Kc  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-05-2016 08:45 AM                     I don't know why that guy is so popular. I find him annoying. "WOW! Oh WOW! AMAZING! WOW!"  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-05-2016 11:17 AM                        Honestly I think a lot more people are more interested in strapping it around their dick or putting it on their vagina while crankin' up some Fiddy than wearing it on their wrist. And likely that's what it's intended for. This is all just a ruse.  |  IP: Logged Leslie Hartmier Expert Film Handler Posts: 100 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Registered: Jul 2012 posted 07-05-2016 04:16 PM                     Hey! Don't judge me! *cough* I mean: Yeah! Such dumb people! Ha! Ha! Seriously, I'm not sure how functional that would be, since having used force feedback controllers didn't ever 'drag me into the moment' of the event in the game, I cannot see how this is going to be anything but another waste of money.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-05-2016 04:29 PM                        The Buttkicker website has a page called "Inside Buttkicker." I don't even want to speculate what that might be all about.  |  IP: Logged

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