Ben Heck swaps 360 D-pad with buttons, world implodes
by Richard Mitchell 
on Sep 2nd 2009 9:15PM
We're just going to come out and say it: Ben Heckendorn -- AKA
Ben Heck -- has absolutely
no respect for manufacturer warranties
. The man cracks open every single piece of hardware he comes across, voiding warranties like blades of grass through a lawnmower. Case in point: observe his
latest affront on
warrantability, an Xbox 360 controller with
buttons where the
D-pad should be. Worse still, the D-pad now occupies the former location of the face buttons.
As if that weren't enough, the
warrantless warranty wrecker swapped the left and right triggers and added
more buttons on the back of the controller that mirror the functions of the face buttons. Heckendorn
claims the controller was made for a paying customer and that he makes such controllers to "allow more options for persons that may have a hard time with normal controller configurations."
Hogwash, we say. We recognize a (warranty) killer when we see one.
[Via
Engadget]
