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Immerz Offers KOR-fx for Pre-order

Wade Roush1/6/10

Immerz, the Cambridge, MA-based startup building a wearable “acousto-haptic” device called KOR-fx that translates movie and video game sound into chest-thumping vibrations, announced today that the device is available for pre-order on its website. Priced at $189.99, the KOR-fx accessory will ship in May, according to the company. Immerz founder and CEO Shahriar Afshar is in Las Vegas this week, demonstrating the device at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show.

Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.

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