E3 2004: Buttkicker Gamer for Your Desk Chair

May 14 2004, 12:00am EST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Walter Mossberg, from the Wall Street Journal, has found a new $150 gadget to enhance video gaming and music listening. The ButtKicker Gamer is a device that you attach to the bottom of your chair and emits sound waves from your favorite games or music. These sound waves send vibrations through your body, starting from the bottom up. Mossberg gives us his impressions in this article (paid registration needed).

He tells us that male testers enjoyed more the gadget than female ones. He also says that it is more an enhancement to videogames than to music. You'll find more details and references in this overview, including a photograph of this new gadget.
See also Buttkicker.com.

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Luigi is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
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