You Vill Giff Me Your Knückles!

The Painstation. Be sure to watch the trailer.

It's a two-man console Pong game, but one hand stays on a sensor field - the "Pain Execution Unit" - that delivers shocks, burns, and whips with a metal wire across the knuckles when targets are hit. Game ends when one player can't take it any more and lifts his or her hand from the PEU. I found this via Beth at Navel, who muses:

The bit on On The Media gave an explaination of the device, talked a little about reaction to/criticism of it, and then interviewed the designers. As if the concept of a Painstation was not wild enough, the whole situation got pushed over the top when one of the designers first spoke in a distinct, commanding, German accent. Too, too perfect.

Two German guys design a gaming console that inflicts pain on the players. Beautiful. The interviewer brought up the concept of getting pleasure out of inflicting pain and then asked if the designers ever considered designing a console that would inflict pleasure on the players instead. The designer who answered her said, without a moment of hesitation, no. That was never a consideration. And then he laughed. And it was art.