{"id":174,"date":"2006-01-09T20:42:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T09:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/01\/09\/sony-announces-horsestick\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T09:44:18","slug":"sony-announces-horsestick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/01\/09\/sony-announces-horsestick\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony announces HORSESTICK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01139627702--><\/p>\n<p>(Las Vegas, CES) Sony Corporation today demonstrated working prototypes of the HORSESTICK\u00c2\u00ae digital game controller at the Sony Booth at the 2006 CES.<\/p>\n<p>Empowered by 6-axis tilt sensors and BlueTooth cordless technology, the first-of-a-kind controller targets two key markets: the 4-5 year-old children and the lucrative &#8220;girls-who-are-into-horses&#8221; demographic. Market analysts have applauded the move to win back these groups after recent losses in market share to Nintendo GameBath &#8211; a waterproof edition of the flagship Gameboy product. <\/p>\n<p>One of the CES conference delegates, Ara Jensen (aged 5) tried out the controller on <em>GeeGee Quest VIII<\/em>: &#8220;I&#8217;m a cowboy! My sister is a poo-poo head!&#8221; he yelled as he tried to deliver a quick triangle + triangle + reign-pull + circle + head-dip combo. &#8220;Poo-poo head!&#8221; he confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have questioned the introduction of a six-foot edition of the HORSESTICK\u00c2\u00ae device, wondering whether there would be demand for an adult version. This has fuelled rumours of a deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/\">Rockstar Games<\/a> to produce <em>Grand Theft Auto: Lancaster County<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, the <a href=\"http:\/\/uspto.gov\">US Patent and Trademarks Office<\/a> have announced that they are working on an improved search engine, to enable bloggers to more quickly find trademark symbols from major US-Japanese corporations to incorporate into humourous image montages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image173\" alt=\"HORSESTICK controller\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/hobbyhorse.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Las Vegas, CES) Sony Corporation today demonstrated working prototypes of the HORSESTICK\u00c2\u00ae digital controller at the Sony Booth at the 2006 CES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-thoughts-from-the-shower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}