Alec Matlock’s Envy Controllers put a new face on video-game peripherals
Alec Matlock’s basement may be the strangest of any student’s at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. A corner of the damp, unfinished cellar of this rental house on Rockhill Road is cordoned off with opaque plastic sheeting, which glows from the lights within. A ventilation tube juts upward to a window. It’s not a drug lab.
Matlock, a 21-year-old business student at UMKC, toils in the corner, airbrushing colorful custom designs onto Xbox controllers. He started painting controllers while still in high school in West Plains, Missouri. He customized controllers on the weekends.
