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CTA's latest creation: A translucent Kinect steering wheel

by Griffin McElroy on May 7th 2011 9:30PM

Stop reading this right now, and put on a hat. Seriously. Grab the nearest bike helmet, fedora or beret, and slap it on your noggin. See, the latest CTA Digital product is going to make your brain explode, and clean-up is going to be way easier if you enclose your domepiece beforehand. Ready? It is a steering wheel peripheral for Kinect, designed for people with a penchant for driving games and, like, zero imagination.

Best of all, the $13 apparatus is totally translucent, meaning it won't obstruct your view of all the virtual driving you'll be doing. And maybe, just maybe, if you're very lucky, its transparentness will make it easier to hide the fact that you just spent $13 on an invisible steering wheel for your make-believe space car from your concerned family and friends.

Via: 123Kinect
Source: Amazon

Tags: cta-digital, driving, microsoft, peripherals, steering-wheel, xbox

Reader Comments (84)

I suddenly feel like I have traveled back in time to the 90's when it was "cool" to have translucent technology.

I'm looking at you, iMac / N64.

@Frozen Radiator But can we actually refer to this as "technology"? It is just a clear plastic steering wheel.

@Frozen Radiator
A translucent N64 is still cool.

@baddates77 THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!

@Frozen Radiator
You crazy bastard!

They are clearly awesome. Like a funtastic, atomic purple glacier! It's pretty transparent.

It doesn't matter if you're nipples are fire orange, your ice blue balls or if your toes taste like grape purple. So, go smoke gray while eating watermelon red in the jungle green!

@Mmmmz
your*

blërg...

@Frozen Radiator
I don't know dude. Those translucent PSP L and R buttons are pretty dope. Im still geekin'.

@Frozen Radiator

I had a translucent purple Gameboy Color. That thing was my prized possession.

@baddates77

Of course we can, the research in the field initiated in the 90's when the existence of the translucitron was first hinted at by new developments in Quantum Field Theory. Then a race to find the hypothesised new particle began and the first empirical evidence of their existence was in 1995, by 1998 the technology had advanced enough to give us the memorable purple transparent game boy color.

I'm pretty sure that's how it happened... more or less.

@Mmmmz

'clearly awesome'

I see what you did there...

@Frozen Radiator

I wonder why there hasn't been a translucent DS or DS cartridge yet?

@Frozen Radiator
Yeah, the 90s ..or back to 2009 when you had to use peripherals, before Kinect was.... oh wait..

*confuzzled*

@Frozen Radiator If I didn't lose my translucent Game Boy I'd still rock that thing out once in awhile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU0-VeNBqEM

@Gamerer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7XW6WgSKB0

Aww, now I got brain all over my cheesehead.

I'll take a dozen.

@baddates77
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWoYmTAfDbk

@(Unverified) You sir, have done a great thing tonight.

That really seems to defeat the whole point of having a Kinect in the first place . . .

@Faceless Troll

Nah ah Troll. I am so waiting for my translucent air guitar they'll release when we get a Rock Hero or Guitar Band game for kinect.

Rock On Wooooooo Yea

Derp.

wouldnt a steering wheel do the same thing as this, but be cheaper?

@Faenix

steering wheel cover*

@Faenix

Or just go to the kitchen and grab a dinner plate.

@ItsameMatt03

I was just going to post this exact thing

Oh my god.....i want one but I don't even have an 360.......who cares!

@Manibi97
How do I kill this comment?!

@Manibi97 With a shovel.

@Manibi97
Kill it with fire

Don't you people ever learn?

Oh my god.....i want one but I don't even have a 360.......who cares!

A peripheral for a system where no peripherals is its biggest selling point, not that this hasn't been done before. (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/07/game-boat-accessory-ideal-for-kinect-adventures-perfect-for-t/)

I read CIA in stead of CTA.

@Martyrdom

Don't worry I'm sure the CIA or some government agency is working on some form of Inviso-gun.

Kinect is a complete joke to me. Not trying to sound like a troll here, but the entire concept, it's execution, it's marketing and it's target audience just shit me.

Then these things come along and remind me how big my hate-boner is for motion controls.

And furthermore

http://www.i-mockery.com/chojin/xbros.png

@FuriousMailman

Hahahaha.

/right click

/save

@FuriousMailman

The concept is good, it's just that there's no games that use it effectively. Modders and doctors doctors have found more use for it then gamers.

@The Scout

True. The technology is actually pretty impressive.

@FuriousMailman

Yeah, you may hate it for gaming but as technology goes, Kinect is pretty advanced & is capable of more than what's led on.

@FuriousMailman

Apparently you haven't seen any Kinect hacks...

@Anticrawl

Apparently I have. Maybe I shouldn't have said 'concept'.

Yes, because we need a steering wheel to do this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbLOFGSEDo

Yes, because we need a steering wheel to do this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbLOFGSEDo

And furthermore

http://www.i-mockery.com/chojin/xbros.png

Wait.

I thought you were the controller?

Unless you need a controller?

Huh.

Holy hell, I thought this was like a projection till I read the comments.

The PSN to those hackers was pretty translucent :/

@jonmaz

Just like your comment is to us.

Oh please let this be the first of many "props" I know that sounds crazy but hear me out. I really think Kinect could create some really fun fps shooters...as long as we have SOME sort of controller. I think a gun prop with an analog stick on it to replace running in place and a trigger would be pretty cool. I love and miss the light gun games, I'd personally enjoy some arcade ports of the current light gun games. I just hope Microsoft will decide that some games need a controller but can still use the benefits of Kinect.

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