After browsing the internet for some old school Video Game accessories like the Sega Activator and the Superscope, I came across this beauty:




In order to write this article, I decided to post my conflicting views on this. I of course think its incredibly stupid, but why not give it a chance for arguments sake?

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Side A: zOMG This Helmet is Awesome!!!

I thought to myself, "What the hell is that black thing eating that ladies head, and where can I get one?" It turns out that Toshiba is experimenting with a new kind of helmet that allows you to see TV and Video Games projected onto a dome in front of your face and when you tilt your head, the picture moves. Sooooo awesome.

Besides looking extremely cool (it looks like it was designed by Big Daddy from Bioshock), it seems to be practical as well. Just imagine, sitting down on your couch watching a movie on it, when all of a sudden a bunch of people come over. Now normally, it would get too loud in your house to hear anything and too many people would be in front of the TV to let you see anything, but with this you can remain sitting there completely secluded from the party and enjoy Total Recall in peace.

But the awesomeness doesn't stop there. Imagine running around your house in it while playing Halo. You'd be banging on the walls and tripping over chairs. The round would end and you'd have a bunch of forks sticking out of your chest. So Awesome!

I don't know the price of this beast, but I'd gladly pay $5000 for it. If it's anywhere near as cool as I've built it up in my head, then I'm sold.

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Side B: My rational side...

I cannot think of a better time to use this acronym than right now...WTF?

In a time when Toshiba is desperately trying to defeat Sony in the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war, they are throwing money at this garbage? Who the hell would ever purchase this? I wouldn't take it if it was free. Seriously, I cannot imagine anyone ever using this in their living room.

Besides the obvious neck problems that this thing would cause, who would want to wear a giant 6.5 pound monitor on their head. You would have to be a very lonely person with absolutely no friends to even consider using this.

So picture this, there you are sitting on your couch with this giant thing on your head. You've got a power cable and some video cable coming out the back and you are sitting there, turning your head around to see whatever it is your watching. After about 5 minutes of this, I guarantee your neck will feel like is going to snap and you'd proabably short circuit the thing from sweating.

We make TV's in a rectangle for a reason. Have you ever been late to a movie and were forced to sit in the front row directly under the screen? Yeah, nobody sits there unless forced too because it sucks major ass to have to move your head to watch all the action on the screen. With this thing, you get to experience that pain with everything you watch....screw that.

I really hope this is a joke because that helmet is a horrible abomination.

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So what do you guys think? Totally Awesome or a Complete Pile of Shit?