The Stinky Footboard Allows Gamers to Game with Their Feet

[Guest]

Time to think beyond the box and game with your feet.

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[shadowfamicom]

Freakin stole my idea Using a old metal dual foot petal from a late 70's Sony dictation machine, wiring the switches to it to a Cthulhu board and using that along with xpadder on a PC via USB...

Honestly though I am excited someone is doing something like this in a more professional way... name is just awful though.

 

[vmem]

um, no thanks unless you have a foot fetish or something...

 

[rgd1101]

at least they got the name right.

 

[aoneone]

Toe jam and Earl! Yayyy ^_^

 

[vmem]

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you might be ever so slightly more convincing if that paragraph was coherent. but no... you weren't...

 

[Fierce Guppy]

In BF3 I get all panicky when under fire and fumble the keyboard when I need to switch weapons. I'm thinking that this device might be a good way to do the job in an instant, especially between knife and main weapon.

 

[Bananaman8910]

I don't know if I want to make fun of this or buy it. They definitely could have chosen a better name though. Then again, I won't forget the name, so maybe they got that right too... I'm so confused

 

[WithoutWeakness]

I've been using a cheap $10 USB footpedal to control push-to-talk on my computer and I love it. I hated taking a finger off my keyboard to hold down the push-to-talk key while playing and I didn't want to have the mic always on because I don't want everyone hearing everything that goes on in my house. $10 on eBay and a week later I had my cheapo USB footpedal in my hands. Re-mapped the button to my PTT key and it worked like a charm. I wound up buying another 2 and use them for various hotkeys in nearly every game I play.

This is going to be an awesome peripheral for the people who adopt it. Once you game using a footpedal to do some actions it's hard to imagine how you played without it. The extra buttons give you so much more control over how many keys you can hit in succession. The only thing I see about this that I don't like is the $120 price tag. You can get a trio of cheap Scythe pedals mounted to a backplane for less than $50. $120 will buy a quality mechanical keyboard. This only has 4 keys. This will have to be a polished product on both the hardware and software sides in order to get people to buy one.

 

[jhansonxi]

Sometimes, if a game's a shoddy port, a controller might come into play.

I prefer joystick (movement) with mouse (aiming).

The Footboard would be useful to those with arm limitations such as paraplegics and carpal tunnel/RSI sufferers.

 

[unksol]

So people who need buttons for push to talk and weapons... Can't use existing great controllers that have the buttons at your finger tips? that's... Pretty ridiculous....

Rudder pedals have been around for a long long time. Nothing creative or new about four "buttons" you push with your feet. Ridiculous for that price.

 

[4745454b]

Yup. Good idea. Bad price. Bring it down to the $20-$30 rand and you might have something.

 

[f-14]

the few peripherals floating around targeted specifically for racing games, PC hardware has never looked towards gamers' feet as possible appendages for control.

get off your mac then, i can see some one has never played a flight sim on the PC despite the hundred or so titles

i think i'll stick with my thrustmaster pedals.

 

[basketcase87]

The hardware looks nice, but for $120 the software better be smooth as butter as well. As others have said, the footpedals currently on the market are much cheaper. Personally I've never felt the need for a footpedal, although I could see one being nice for voice chat (I bind it to my mouse currently).

 

[jackbling]

Buy a usb-2 infinity transcription pedal, download the free software from express scribe, then enjoy three buttons, with control and shift modifiers, for $50.00.

And its not named stinky.

These transcription pedals are abused, get wet, cat particulate, and work for years.