Archive for the 'Wii' Category
Full size Zelda sword and shield Wii Controller Adapters
I don’t care to buy a steering wheel to play excitetruck or a baseball bat to play Wii sports, but waking up saturday morning before my wife does and donning a 10 in plastic sword and swinging it 3 feet in front of my new tv? That would be awesome.
Amazon has the Nintendo Wii in stock if anyone is looking for one.
I just bought the original Zelda. I didn’t realize how fun it would be to play again. I guess Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) came out yesterday too.
This guy lost 9 pounds over 6 weeks from doing a workout regime using Wii sports. He did a pretty controlled study and was skinny when he started.
I am participating in the Discovery Health National Body Challenge. I start tonight with 8 weeks free to Bally. I’d like to lose more than 9 pounds, but that would be a good start. I just gotta make it through this first week.
Now I just need to eat less of these.
Flickr Gallery of someone’s Grandma playing the Wii.
I always quietly mocked kids who had different names for their grandparents when I was young. I have never understood why Grandma and Grandpa weren’t sufficient. I mean you don’t let your child call you “moogu”. You keep reinforcing that your name is mama and then mom.
Well, now I’ve changed my stance a little bit. I’ve realized ma and pa are just as much as a made-up slang term as babas, for grandma. That and one of my nephews calls my dad “put”, which is just about the best name for grandpa, I’ve ever heard.
Steve Jobs watched Minority Report one too many times.
The new apple phone is a phone, internet communicator and ipod all-in-one. You can listen to music, watch video, make calls, view pictures, browse the internet (safari), send email and take pictures (it also a 2 mp camera). Plus it will run Mac OS X.
The device is controlled completely by a touchscreen interface. There is only one button, a home button. It is also widescreen for video playback, but can be titled vertically. The screen can then adjust by using an accelerometer to sense how it is being held.
It will also work as a controller for the Wii and is rumored to provide lasting salvation.*
Now many of you might think, I don’t need to do all that on my phone, and thats true. But it’s the interface and controls on this that really is going to make it a revolutionary product. Some us may never want to watch video at any time, but controls that don’t require buttons and a keyboard, can really change the way we do everything. Touch interaction is pretty amazing stuff. The Wii, using motion, took video gaming to babies and grandmas, touch interaction has the same potential.
*Not true, though with wifi, an accelerometer, bluetooth, a speaker and a completely customizable user interface, it technically has the potential to control the Wii, pretty sure it doesn’t provide salvation.
Image from engadget
UPDATE: It will cost 500-600 dollars depending on model and is available in June.
A man farting caught on an infared camera.
Though this is black and white and not color, I would like to think in a color world, that my fart is a evil black shadow.
Had friends over last night and played a new wii game where I shoot plungers at evil rabbits. It was hilarious and really fun.
You can get a wii today at Amazon today between 7 and 11 a.m. pst. My buddy also saw some on the shelf at target.
Here is a review and some footage of the game I played last night:
Uncovering the phenomenon that is creating celebrity lookalikes and personal dopplegangers called Miis on Nintendo’s Wii, my interest was sparked to find out what other Wii owners were creating. From some friends and family I’ve received a few well known faces: Oprah, Arnold, Johny Kerry and Rosanne. I myself have created the likes of G.O.B. from Arrested Development, Bigfoot and the man without a face (literally), to name a few. To try and find some other creations, I went to the only reliable source, the internet. After doing exhaustive studies at work on my free time, I have compiled some results as to what the most popular Mii creations are. Plus I made a pie chart which means it’s fact.
Mii Celebrity Thereom 4.2
The most popular user generated Mii is Jesus followed by Hitler and then Michael Jackson.
I’d love to hear some interpretations of these results. I would theorize a postulate but I don’t want to cloud what has been a strictly scientific process.
We know what not to do with the wii. Here are some positive suggestions on what you can do:
