Peripheral Of The Month: The Gaming Space Vest

SPOnG has cupboards full of failed peripherals from the past. We even have the original Wii Fitness balance board that Atari made back in the 1980s stuffed away somewhere. (For the record, it never worked).

What we don’t have though, and what we now immediately have a desperate want – nay, need – for is one of these beauties, the ‘3rdSpace Vest’ from TN Games

What does it do? Here’s what the manufacturers tell us: “Video game characters live in a three-dimensional world, but gamers have only been able to experience two dimensions... until now.”

This Rambo style gaming vest apparently “takes gameplay beyond sight and sound, creating spatial awareness of the world your characters inhabit. Unlike traditional force feedback devices that rumble or buzz, the 3rdSpace Vest gives you precise impact where it happens, as it happens. Get pounded with body slams, crushed with G-forces, and blasted with bullet fire.”

It could add to the whole general excitement. Combined with a lightgun, you could get a whole-body workout with the ducking and diving. And with two, you could hurt your mate in a multi-player show-off. Wouldn't that be nice.

Get "dialed in with the patented 3rdSpace technology" the vest’s makers urge us. Well, send us one over and we’ll happily pop Mark in it and fire lightguns at him till he falls over.

Then we’ll pop it in the cupboard with all the other rubbish steering wheels, karate-kick sensor bars and ‘awesome peripherals’ we never actually use.

^{source: The Guardian}