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Remember how disturbed you were when you saw ears growin' off the backs of freakish deathmutant mice? The sensation of bearing witness to such an unnatural creation -- a strange, sickly curiousity oscillating in the pit of your gut -- is not unlike what you might feel watching the above video, in which a man plays Doom on his iPod mounted snugly inside an NES controller.

Intrepid modder f00 f00 put together this little video demonstrating his creation, complete with the vaguely erotic interfacing of the iPod and modified NES controller, gutted and reconfigured to fit the dock connector. 

Seeing three completely disparate technologies spread decades apart, interacting in such a way and creating a rather intuitive and fluid gameplay experience is simply rad. Modders who spend presumably hours upon hours forging these sorts of creations seem a special breed of geek; those who would sooner build a combination dishwasher/flamethrower than venture beyond their front door. Heroes, every last one of 'em!

[Via Engadget - thanks to Ted for the tip.] 


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LostCrichton's Avatar
LostCrichton at 01/15/2007 02:54
very cool...
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 01/15/2007 03:10
Surely dark sorceries are involved in this!
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Dexter345 at 01/15/2007 03:13
SW33T. But what the Hell is with that ear-mouse? I've never seen that before, and now I'm going to have nightmares...
wardrox's Avatar
wardrox at 01/15/2007 03:33
ZOMG!
But coudl you get a NES emulator running on the iPod?
Jecrell's Avatar
Jecrell at 01/15/2007 03:34
@Dexter: Scientists genetically altered a mouse to have a human ear on its back.
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/mouse-ear.jpg
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Southpwnd at 01/15/2007 03:55
does anyone know if the ear-mouse can hear with its human ear?
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some_dude at 01/15/2007 04:55
It can hear the whispering of the dark one. The ear-mice are here as the harbingers of the evil one's dark crusade against sweet mods.
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Holyetheline at 01/15/2007 05:02
That dude needs to clean his fingernails.
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Beautox at 01/15/2007 05:15
Love the Richard Cheese in the background, F00 F00 is all about class.
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nightmareci at 01/15/2007 05:34
NEDM can top this, maybe.
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ian_esq at 01/15/2007 12:23
Ok this is cool, I think Im going to make my own iPod dock.

I've never really thought of it before.
It's really easy to do if you think about it.

iPod cord+ "Insert iPod dock Item of choice" + iPod= Your own kickass iPod dock
Kari's Avatar
Kari at 01/15/2007 12:57
I am salivating. Someone wanna buy me an ipod and make it so I can play final fantasy on it? That'd be great, thanks!
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Wootex at 01/17/2007 23:45
Yeah, I saw this, it is pretty crazy. But honestly, who really wants to invest large amounts of time in order to play doom on a tiny screen with an NES controller. Yeah, I rather play a better game on a bigger screen with a better controller, maybe that's just me, but I can see the appeal of this.
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snesbiz at 01/26/2007 10:54
Where can I get a controller modified for iPod - Do they sell them online?
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