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# Torment your friends with this DIY Dune Pain Box
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/torment-your-friends-diy-dune-pain-box/
- Published: 2014-06-09T11:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:50:50.000Z
- Description: Something tells me this isn’t Frank Herbert’s official explanation for how the Pain Box in Dune works; but nevertheless, here’s a method for building your very own ad hoc phantom pain container, perfect for coaxing your lily-livered friends and children to sticking their trembling hand into. The en
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Fear, Friendship, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Something tells me this isn’t Frank Herbert’s official explanation for how the Pain Box in Dune works; but nevertheless, here’s a method for building your very own ad hoc phantom pain container, perfect for coaxing your lily-livered friends and children to sticking their trembling hand into.

The enigmatic device that triggers intense pain without doing a lick of physical harm can be approximated by abusing a glitch in our pain receptors. This is knowns as the Thermal Grill Illusion, and the way it works is thus: the torturous mirage of searing pain can be created by stimulating pleasing coolness and pleasant warmth simultaneously. All you need inside your elaborately and sinisterly adorned pain box is a grill-like grid with alternating cool and warm rods placed side-by-side. To give you an example of what we’re talking, one researcher induced the effect using frozen and microwaved hotdogs—likely a first for the scientific method. Just be careful when trying this at home because things can get dramatic:

If you want to read more about the fascinating phenomena, [head on over to io9](http://io9.com/make-your-own-dune-pain-box-1585770257?ref=killscreen.com).