Man, what great work. Its nice to know some people out there are thinking of the non-mainstream crowd and doing an awesome job. Guy puts a ton of working into the design, and seems to nail it...

I think this type of thing is just as important as Child's Play.
I can't begin to express my admiration for Ben and the work he's done.

I agree with both Cruithne and Scazza, Ben is somewhat of a legend amongst men, if there was a box here ->| | <- thinking about the problem at hand

@Dannon: That's not what a wrote Mr. Kotaku Commenting System, you missed a whole chunk out.

I was saying if there was a box ->| |:)<-

@Dannon: Sorry to post 3 times in a row but it's missed some off again, I think the system has problems with using -> and <- then continuing to write

Why hasn't any big company hired Ben Heck yet? He's a genius designer!

I actually can say I dislike the design for his one handed controllers. The guy's great and reason behind the controllers is also an awesome one. It's just I can't help feeling that there's a better way to do it than how he's approaching it.

@Orionsaint:

How do you know they haven't? I only read Ben's site occasionally, but he could easily be working on designs for a major company. These side projects are what he does for fun, but for pay he could be designing something boring, yet profitable.

He certainly always seems to have plenty of cash to throw around on his projects, so I assume he's making a good living.

His post wins for the phrase "if Robocop went to Holland."

Ben's projects always have such polish- they look like a commercial product that you'd see in a store. His initiatives on gaming accessibility are quite admirable as well.

Dude, Ben Heck is awesome. Using an old Jaguar controller?...He's like the MacGyver of gaming mods!

A few of Heck's projects have been fairly well put together, but I still can't say I'd want a single one of them...

@fuchikoma:

Of course you wouldn't want a one handed controller , I assume your a fully abled person.
These things are a godsend for people with disabilities , I bet if you couldn't use your hand you would love one of these.

@Deflicted:
It's awesome that he has stuff like that. I was thinking along the lines of the PS3 laptop (well... "portable."), 360 laptop, or the NEStari. His portables are functional, but powerfully undesirable.

When he makes games accessible to more people, that can't be a bad thing. He just usually makes huge chunky portables with little screens.

To be honest, I was more impressed by his Super Genintari device [www.stupidfingers.com]
which combined a Genny, NES, SNES and an Atari 2600 into one unit....

Wanna see someone playing through fire and flames using that!!!!!

He should start working on some RockBand drum pedals. That would be awesome!

Haha, his video demonstrating the device is gold.

Not so much because you can see the things in action, but because he went and had fun with it

That's cool. Really, really cool, but wouldn't a simpler, one-handed Guitar Hero option be to just mod a guitar controller to only require fret-pressing (like hammering) and not need the strum bar at all? ...or, better yet, Activision could just include that as an in-game option.