Keep your JoySound to yourself with new microphone peripheral
by JC Fletcher 
{ Mar 16th 2009 at 3:30PM }
Karaoke JoySound Wii allows Japanese Wii owners to bring the karaoke experience home, with a full music subscription service. The only problem with bringing that experience home is that Japanese apartments tend to be tiny and thin-walled.Japan Trust Technology has solved that issue for late-night crooners with the Mute Mic USB. This specially-designed microphone includes a plastic cup that fits over players' mouths, muting the atonal, drunken screeches that would normally issue forth throughout the apartment building. As an added "bonus," it looks unidentifiably disgusting both in use and on its own, like some kind of medical device you wouldn't want to have to explain.
Gallery: Karaoke Joysound Wii
[Via GAME Watch]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
telee @ Mar 16th 2009 3:49PM
I'm just going to say what's all on our minds:
That looks like a sex toy.
devilsei @ Mar 16th 2009 4:03PM
shhh...
secretly, its part of a line of Japanese-exclusive, adult-oriented games for the Wii...
someone just got smart and removed the waggle stick out of the cup and replaced it with a microphone...
coleduke @ Mar 16th 2009 3:56PM
Could they have found an uglier person for the picture?
TracerBullet @ Mar 16th 2009 3:58PM
Nope, cole, they had to distract us from the ugly microphone.
Well one thing for sure: if any peripherical for Wii fails to sell well, this will be it.
Phil @ Mar 16th 2009 4:01PM
It's like taking into a urinal cup.
So sick...
Anthony Johnson @ Mar 16th 2009 4:16PM
That just seems wrong!!
nintendo1889 @ Mar 16th 2009 10:38PM
Yes, the screeching-drunk singing in karaoke bars. In fact, there was one near an apartment I lived in (yep, lived in Japan for a while) and at 11:30 at night, I heard it for the first time, scared the crap outta me!
Danny @ Mar 17th 2009 1:51AM
Karaoke is a big deal here, in my local one if you're lucky enough to get the room next to the bathroom everyone who uses it can hear your "drunken screeching".
However, that only encourages you, can you hear yourself with this thing? Looks like a toilet plunger.
I would be worried drunk people wouldn't know what to do with it...