Space Invaders with real lasers is as delightfully dangerous as you'd imagine
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Space Invaders with real lasers is as delightfully dangerous as you'd imagine

What happens when you turn Space Invaders into a live action game, complete with an actual fire hazard? We've already seen one recent clip bringing video games into real-life, which seemed fine up until Adam Sandler showed up. But Maker Martin Raynsford has restored the dream using paper invaders, Arduino and a laser cutter.

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USB Biofeedback Game Controller. Play games with your gun show

So you flex those fore-arms to impress the women, who always end up walking away (it's okay to admit, we've all been there).  Well what if we could provide you some kind of use for them except for their power of ticket dispensary?  

Well Advancer Technologies has your back, with the Biofeedback Game Controller, a plug-and-play option that used EMG (electromyography) sensors to monitor electrical currents that flow through your muscles with every impulse, and turn them into on-screen control (in this case, navigating Mario in Super Mario 3).

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