i read this article in the Hartford Courant about many devices you may buy to enhance your gamin experience and and wondered if getting this was just to much.

Philips amBX Computer Gaming Peripherals ($399, full kit at Amazon.com)

Philips showed off this new line of immersing gaming peripherals at the recent World Cyber Games championship event in Seattle. There are several components you can add to your PC that will help pull you into the game — or pull the game (or movie) out into the real world:

tStart with a pair of powerful Philips PC speakers and add an amBX subwoofer.

t Add high-intensity LED lights that sit atop your speakers and behind your monitor. With the ability to flash or sustain 16 million colors, they sync up to your game, creating the game's atmosphere on your desktop.

t Plug in a game-activated rumbling wrist pad.

t Last, but not least, you've gotta try the dual 5,000 RPM fans (shown below at either side of the $399 SGC5103BD system) that, according to Philips, can simulate "everything from a gentle breeze to an approaching helicopter." by Bill Hutchens

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i am fine with some nice speakers or some lights to add to the experience but fans? come on. that seems a little much. i think there is a line and that they crossed it. it not even for a ps3 or 360 but for the pc. when i used to play pc games all i used were the speakers that came with it, the lights from the screen and the wind coming from the open window. also for 400 bucks, thats a lot for a few fans and flashing lights.

I never thought about things like this that would enhance the gaming experience. It would be awesome if they came out with a smoke machine for smoke grenades in COD4 hahaha. Someone throws a smoke grenade and your living room fills up with smoke. I also would like to have a giant megawatt light on top of my television that would flash me in the face whenever someone throws a stun/flash. lmao.

Can you please resize the 2nd picture? It's HUGE!! =)

wow, what kind of mega-geek would spend money on this crap?! *sneaks out back door and runs to Best Buy*

I never thought about things like this that would enhance the gaming experience. It would be awesome if they came out with a smoke machine for smoke grenades in COD4 hahaha. Someone throws a smoke grenade and your living room fills up with smoke. I also would like to have a giant megawatt light on top of my television that would flash me in the face whenever someone throws a stun/flash. lmao.

Can you please resize the 2nd picture? It's HUGE!! =)

resized. but still pretty big.
i think the fans are enough. i am sure some one would sue if the made the smoke machine thing or blinding light.
by the way necro9, why are there hebrew letters on your avvi?

I have a setup like that. (third spolier.) I have a window fan on my desk and two mag lights on either side with colored phelephane(how the F*** do yu spell SELL-a-phAn anyway?) taped to the top. Total cost 52 dollars and 98 cents. The fact that I can't see the monitor price less.


As much as I criticize it, I think that would actually be kinda cool if I could afford it. Although I would not use the lights, too distracting. My monitor has a blue LED on the top of it that I sometime find my self stareing at. Two giant ones would be hell.

that is so true it would be distracting and wouldn't it also get really loud if you have a fan and a stereo making it feel like there is a helicopter in the room?

that is so true it would be distracting and wouldn't it also get really loud if you have a fan and a stereo making it feel like there is a helicopter in the room?

Yeah it would.
But at the same time it would be friggin' incredible!:w00t:

And of course lets not forget all those force feedback vests so when you get shot you KNOW you got shot. this could start a multiplayer frenzy of people peppering you with bullets when your already dead while laughing at you screaming in pain.
Wait thats sort of what happens now...
http://www.tngames.com/products.php

that is also why to much. the only why you could make cod4 if you got all that stuff is for them to actually send you to russia or somewhere like that and have you actually fighting with real guns

http://www.tngames.com/products.php

Get pounded on your own terms

That is so incredibly wrong :lol:

wow, what kind of mega-geek would spend money on this crap?! *sneaks out back door and runs to Best Buy*

LMAO DAMMIT! I read it, wanted to reply, then read your ending... you beat me too it!

(but not to the speakers... MINE!!!! BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

cool!!....