The Stinky Footboard Allows Gamers to Game with Their Feet
Time to think beyond the box and game with your feet.
PC gaming has mostly been a mouse and keyboard affair. Sometimes, if a game's a shoddy port, a controller might come into play. However, besides the few peripherals floating around targeted specifically for racing games, PC hardware has never looked towards gamers' feet as possible appendages for control.
“I tried a lot of different types of PC controllers, but always came back to the keyboard and mouse. Then I thought, why should we limit ourselves to two hands to control games?” says Luc Levasseur, Co-Founder and R&D Director, Stelulu Technologies. “Luckily, I had access to prototyping machinery and a president open to crazy ideas.”
Stelulu is hoping to integrate footwork into play with the Stinky Footboard. The board has four programmable buttons and supports in-game modifiers; meaning up to 16 actions can be saved. Profiles can be saved and automatically launched, depending on the program.
The Stinky Footboard is looking to Kickstarter to help along production. Stelulu promises to make the Stinky Footboard available by June for $119 USD.
The Stinky Footboard will be compatible with all versions of Windows from XP to 8.
To get an idea about just HOW durable the Stinky Footboard is, here's a video of it in action... in a stress test:

Honestly though I am excited someone is doing something like this in a more professional way... name is just awful though.
Honestly though I am excited someone is doing something like this in a more professional way... name is just awful though.
you might be ever so slightly more convincing if that paragraph was coherent. but no... you weren't...
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.
The Footboard would be useful to those with arm limitations such as paraplegics and carpal tunnel/RSI sufferers.
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.
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.
And its not named stinky.
These transcription pedals are abused, get wet, cat particulate, and work for years.