CES 2009: Feet-on with the X-Rocker Vibe

by Justin McElroy on Jan 11th 2009 6:00PM

There's a magical subset of products one finds at CES, if one looks close enough. We call it the "We probably won't buy these, and we're not sure who will, but we're really glad they're in the universe" class of products. Yeah, we know, not the punchiest name. We're workshopping it.

A great example is the X-Rocker Vibe, an odd speaker stage that the company (which also makes a line of gaming-centric chairs) plans to launch sometime this year. X-Rocker said the Vibe was supposed to replicate the sensation of taking the stage at a rock show, but all we got was "playing Guitar Hero during an exceedingly mild earthquake." That said, the loud showfloor of CES isn't a great place for testing audio products, so we're going to give it the benefit of the doubt. Honestly, we're just happy it exists.

Tags: ces-2009, guitar-hero, PS2, PS3, rock-band, rock-band-2, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (56)

I'm just glad they could get one of the fembots from Austin Powers to PLAY Guitar Hero at CES. I assume the girl to the right is in sleepwear because that's how she plays Guitar Hero normally?

The blond one looks like she's made out of wax...

Clicked on the feed just to read the comments :3

Is anyone else sick of Guitar Hero/Rock Band/Fake Musician games? Seriously, when they start putting out peripherals to go on top of other peripherals and enhance yet OTHER peripherals, we have to wonder if the "game" has turned into a variation on the collectible card games that we so lovingly called "crack cards".

I think at this point, nobody's playing the games and they're all just collecting peripherals for the games to be the coolest kids on the block.