Wii

Wow. I just bumped into Johnny Lee in the halls here at Mix09. I'm a huge fan boi with a man-crush on this dude. You've seen Johnny before on Channel 9 talking to Robert Hess.  Johnny's a legend (in my mind) in the computer vision space, and he put up with me gushing at him here at…

Johnny Lee works in Microsoft Research, with a specific penchant at creating interesting and useful devices. He has a session scheduled for MIX09 called "Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote" where he will show off some interesting uses he has found for using the Wii Remote…

The Microsoft Research Summit showed off some amazing new technology and also some REALLY fun games. The experts at the University of Central Florida have created multiple ways to incorporate the motion sensing device used with Nintendo's Wii, on the PC. Take a look at all the…

A couple guys from Veracity Solutions setup a demo of their cool project during an Open Space session. The demo shows a Windows Presentation Foundation application bound to the inputs of a Wii mote to allow the user to control whats on the screen. They modified a pair of gloves with LEDs to allow a…

I just had to share with you all a story that truly touched my heart (and I try not to let anything do that so this is huge). A good friend of mine- and HUGE gamer, has been anxiously awaiting the launch of the Wii so she could camp out in line, grab her new console and enjoy her wii-kend. So…

So rumor has it there will be 7-9 million Wii's made by 2007.  Rumors are also circluating that the PS3 will have major supply and hardware issues (mostly blue-ray) when its released next month.  Not to mention the price tag is going to be fairly steep.  Which we are all aware…

Peter Moore sat down for an intimate chat with some Xbox community site leaders and I crashed the party. This man is like a God to me so it was AWESOME to hear his thoughts on the Wii , Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. He also talks about how we interface with technology, gaming…

So we've showed you what Microsoft and Sony have brought to this years E3, but what about Nintendo! Everybody's been talking about the Wii, Nintendo's next gaming console. Not to mention the video games you can play on it like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3 and Mario…

We all spend WAY too much time browsing the internet and sometimes there are sites and stories we find that the world simply MUST know about. This is our chance to share some of our favorite web findings with you! And if you've found a site or story that you think people should know about it-- then…