Ben Heck Creates One-Handed PS4 Controller for Disabled

Our favorite modder, Ben Heck, has come up with another cool creation. As he has done numerous times in the past, he has built a special controller to help the disabled to play video games. The modified gaming controller was requested by one of his viewers and as usual, he has delivered.

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This accessibility controller lets gamers with use of only a single hand play PS4 games. All the buttons on the left side have been shifted and re-fitted on the right side, including the left analog stick, which was put on the back of the unit. Ben will reveal the build on an upcoming episode of his show, but the 40 second trailer here gives us a little tease.

This is going to make a lot of folks very happy. Keep an eye out on Element 14 for the full episode, which is expected to premiere later today.

[via BGR via New Launches]

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Let them eat Yoda: A geek food feast full of fun and failure

Ready to suck some juice out of the Incredible Hulk's head.

(Credit: Amanda Kooser/CNET)

I recently stood at the end cap of a grocery store aisle, doing a double-take at a stack of macaroni-and-cheese boxes. I rubbed my eyes. I wasn’t seeing things. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Kraft mac and cheese is a real thing. And it’s not alone. Geek marketing of foods is a trend.

There are Angry Birds fruit gummies, Super Mario Campbell’s chicken noodle soup cans, Spider-Man Cheez-It crackers, Iron Man candies, and some sort of mysterious juice beverage with the Incredible Hulk’s roid-rage head on top of it. I bought them all. I poked and prodded them. I inspected Yoda’s apple-flavored gummy ears. I held crackers up into the light to evaluate the artwork. I even ate them.

Since the early days of “Buck Rogers” tie-ins with Kellogg’s back in the 1930s, geek properties have found a way to hook up with food-related products. For the most part, the results fall into the snack food and candy realm, the kind of products meant to fuel a binge video-gaming session. A few, like the Super Mario soup, could pass as main dishes if you have a flexible idea of what qualifies as an entree.

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