Feeling the limitations of your aging Aura Interactor vest? Then you might just be the rare sort of customer that Immerz is after with its new KOR-fx "acousto-haptic" wearable device. As you might have suspected, the device doesn't exactly blow you away when you strap it on, but it is at least somewhat more impressive than a pair of speakers strapped to your chest. That might be enough to get by if it was priced for an impulse buy, but at a hefty $180 it's clearly landed in the smallest of niche markets -- the fact that it feels unnervingly like a medical device of some sort when you have it on doesn't help things either. Head on past the break for a quick video, and hit up the gallery below for a closer look.

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