KOR-fx: It's a rumble pack for your chest!

I'd like to try it.

I had a rumble backpack when I was a kid. IIRC it plugged into the component audio, and was basically a subwoofer you strapped to yourself. I must have used it once.

More than anything, I'm concerned about the expression on this guy's face. There are so many questions.....
Is this person in pain? Is he refusing to give back that drumstick? Is he showing his mom what it would look like if he wore a second pair of headphones on his chest?

Well it's that time of year again. What's that? Resolutions? No, we've pretty much eaten our weight in post-Christmas sale red and green M and M's already. It's time for CES. That's the Consumer Electronics Show to us, but some companies seem to think this stands for Completely Exhausting Stuff. Take this prime example from Immerz. The KOR-fx is kind of like when you put that controller on your crotch while playing Rez, but it goes on your chest instead. I know, I know, not as exciting, but I suppose it's really Immerzive when you fall off your pony in Barbie Horse Adventures. No release date is available yet, but you better start saving that allowance because the MSRP will be $189.99. At that price, it might be worth your money to pay your little brother a quarter to punch you in the chest every 30 seconds or so during your gaming sessions. Or to get really Immerzive, the nuts.

Looks like the guy from The Hangover and Bored to Death at 1:56

Hey Guys,

My name is Devon Smith. I'm a videogame writer/producer that was given the opportunity to test a prototype this product about 7 months ago.

Needless to say -- aside from the abysmal marketing attempt that instantly took me back to the Westwood College Game Design Program ads -- this product is much more than the "chest phones", "manwoofer" or "game bra" I initially misjudged it for.

I first heard about the product from a family friend (and venture capitalist) that was looking to invest. What I ended up with was a Harvard physicist and a PS2 in my living room hooked up to my 40" plasma with awful speakers.

What the product actually does is really more of a testament to science. The funny plastic "ribs", as they're called -- are actually a malleable plastic designed to transfer the resonance of a set of transducers to other sections of your body. Like the name suggests -- it is actually designed to resonate similar to your own ribs and your voice resonates within your chest cavity.

It's half technology, half psychology. What it's actually doing is tapping into your limbic system -- using your own sensory memory to fill in the blanks.

The effect, to say the least -- is astounding.

This is not simply a gaming device. In the demonstrations I witnessed, I not only watched a gamer with a penchant for sky diving get sweaty palms playing Mirror's Edge, I felt the pattering of rain on my shoulders during the T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park. Then we found the goat...

Even cutscenes or conversations between characters come alive.Shepard's voice feels like it's coming out of your chest in Mass Effect,

While the technology is still in it's infancy, this product is to audio what Stereoscopic 3D is to visuals. We all scoffed at throwing on another pair of glasses. We thought we were going back to the Red & Blue era. We were wrong.

Look at Avatar.

This product doesn't force you to buy special equipment, retool existing media or hardware. It just works.

The only piece of marketing lingo they've thrown out so far that resonates with me as well as their product itself is the "7th Sense" term they've coined.

This device is already 100% portable -- you can wear it comfortably under a jacket -- and look no like more of a jackass than someone with a massive set of ear cans on. But incorporating a high-sensitivity microphone into a revised model could potentially allow a blind man FEEL a bus coming down the road and judge his proximity to it.

The man just f***ing gave human beings Spider-Sense.

I think we can forgive a Harvard professor a mulligan when it comes to his first attempt at saying hello to Generation Y.

I know I sound like a corporate shill at this point. But I want to go on record saying that I haven't received a dime from this company with the exception of accepting an economy class plane ticket to Las Vegas to help him demonstrate the product live.

Chris, Justin -- if any of you guys are planning on attending, I'd love to have you come by and check it out for yourselves.

- Devon Smith

Sorry it might be petty of me but I have been increasingly trying to avoid doing business with companies that end their name with a 'Z', its not cool it never was and I can't think of the last time I have used a product whos name or whos company name ended as such that didn't totally suck.

On a side note I have also been avoiding anything that starts with a lowercase 'i' seems to be the next big naming trend that everyone and their horrible products seem to be jumping on since the whole Apple iInsertproducthere.

But I won't say your product is dead to me, much like a slew of other rather bad products I look forward to seeing you in the bargain bin at radioshack, who knows I might even change my mind (doubtful as that is after watching that video)

Have to run to work, so I don't have proper time to mock this thing, but I watched the video and god this thing is stupid and doom to fail.

Hi, I'm posting on behalf of Bob, who just tried Immerz.
He's dead, as it screwed his pacemaker. But before that the was saying it felt awesome.

Also Billy is in a coma, Immerz gave him a heart attack. He's 5. Youngest heart attack case world record? I bet he'll be happy to be in the Guinness World Records... If he wakes up.

The Rez Trance VIbrator for the PS2 says 'Hi'.

Based on that video and the faces people were making, it looks more like a way to immerse yourself in constipation. Or maybe relieve yourself from it.

It looked okay until I saw "189.99"

Fail. You might get me to pay 100 if I really liked it. But that thing is more than a PSP!

I haven't heard the words "rumble pack" in years

Set it at $20 and I'd give it a whirl.

"4. Doom it to failure -- we'd suggest touching on the $189.99 price point, but feel free to highlight a different flaw as you see fit."

I'd say not being able to comfortable insert it into your vagina and/or rectum is the biggest failure. Look at that thing — ouch, much?

The guys in that video look like members of the supporting cast on the Tim and Eric Awesome Show.

This things sounds scarily like it could defibrilate you...when you don't need defibrilating...thereby fibrilating...thereby causing you a heart attack...thereby immerzing you in your own death. Just like in the video gamez.

Dude's cute.

From Immerz....Comes the next revolution.....in hardcore gaming.
Do you consider yourself to be THE VERY BEST at Halo 3?
Do you know you're the man at Call of Duty?
Even more, are you the kind of douche who willingly blows $200 on Turtle Beach Headphones?
Well guess what? You're nothing.....
Without the KOR-fx (Kind of Ridiculous-FX) Chest Pummel Pack!
Now, every time you get shot in the face (which we know is EVERY TIME), you can feel it like it's not even really happening!
How much you ask? What's it matter? You're going to by it anyway for one of two reasons: To impress you're equally douchey friends, of because one of your even more douchey friends bought it too, and you HAVE TO HAVE IT!

From IMMERZZZZZZZ

Did I catch a glimpse of Zach Galifinakis in the video??

Were half the people jizzing when this was filmed?

Looks fun, I don't know if I would pick it up at that price.

Rumble pack for your chest? What if that like, throws off your heart beat or something?

If you've never been to a major concert (even with lighter bands) you wouldn't understand how much acoustic resonance your chest can handle.

@Jeffrey Adbell: Indeed sir. It would be ;-)

@ Scuffles: Ain't that the truth. The company name is well... embarrassing.

Why is the space marine in that fake video game holding the Fallout laser rifle?

Have these people learned nothing? There have been wearable audio peripherals around since god knows when. Here's a particularly bad example I remember seeing piles of in clearance and liquidation sales.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-H-SJAAqec