Posts Tagged ‘Wii’

Wii Board As Robot Controller

Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:10 5 Comments

The new sensation of Wii accessories uses is the Wii balance board. After the various modulations, this time Balance Board is used for something different, to control and move a robot.
With movements that reminds as of Segway control, robotics enthusiast Juan Gonzalez can control the Skybot robot by just moving his body. See the [...]

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Open Your Curtains With A Wii

Sunday, March 2, 2008 0:02 No Comments

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We have seen from time to time a range of things that you can do with a Wii. This time someone has applied the Wii remote to make an automatic curtain opening system. I am not sure if he is going to patent it and how much he is selling it for but I [...]

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"I thought of Wii first!"

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 19:34 No Comments

An American, Pat Goschy, claims that since 1999 he had invented the technology behind today’s Nintendo Wii and its remote (Wiimote). With two patents registered in 1999, when he was working in Midway, he states that the thing that has the whole world mad is his inspiration.
See the video of “His Wii” in action, which [...]

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360 Degrees of Wii

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 16:06 No Comments

This Nintendo Wii has inspired a lot of people. This time they decided to create a screen-ring (full 360 degrees) to play Quake III. You are literally inside the Arena and the Quake world is all around you, until you get dizzy
See the video below
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Cool Queen Elisabeth plays wii with William

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 15:12 No Comments

 
Queen: William; What are you doing there?
William: I am playing, grandma
This id how the dialog between Queen Elisabeth II and her grandson might have started. William was playing with the Christmas present that his girlfriend Kate Middleton gave him (…he did not have a wii and waited for his girlfriend to buy him one for [...]

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Minority Report style wiimote!

Friday, January 4, 2008 12:10 No Comments

When Johnny Chung Lee “invented” his head tracking wii-based system to create a virtual reality world, we thought that this will open new horisons in PC handling and game playing. We were right! It seems a company called Cynergy Labs produced a new PC handling system, more like what we saw in Minority Report, [...]

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