With the Nintendo Wii officially in stores for only three days, a lot of accessories for the game console’s interactive controller - the Wiimote, have already surfaced on the internet. The fun factor of using the Wiimote controller as golf clubs, tennis rackets, swords or bowling balls when playing their launch titles such as Wii Sports or Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess is already enough on its own to keep you happy for a while. However, playing these games with the feeling of actually having a tennis racket, a real golf club or the actual Zelda Master Sword and Hyrulean Shield in your palms, makes all the difference between playing the game, and being part of it!!!
So far, the Nintendo Wii is still looking much more promising than the PlayStation 3 whether in terms of pricing or fun. Now all we need is a rifle, a fishing rod and a light sabre wiimote accessory…
The International Space Station up there is currently widely used as a laboratory to perform experiments under weightless environments without gravity. This video on Youtube shows a few of these (probably not so top secret) experiments done at the station, investigating the effects of waves in a sphere of water, bubbles in a sphere of water, as well as an antacid tablet reaction with a sphere of water.
The experiments themselves are only high-school leveled labs when performed on Earth, but when performed in space, it just gets that much more fascinating.
According to a recent article on CNN, University of Toronto philosophy professor Doug Hutchinson was granted authorization to legally use medical marijuana to ease his chronic medical conditions. Professor Hutchison has now become one of the 1,492 Canadians allowed official marijuana consumption for medical purposes. The official enforcement of drug legislation in Ontario, however, still has some gray areas, making it one of the foremost reasons why illegal marijuana consumption is commonplace in Canada.
During the Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge in which I took part in a couple of days ago, one of the puzzles pointed me towards an interesting project at Windows Live Local. Apparently, this is Microsoft’s attempt at challenging Google Earth by providing a first person perspective of various locations in a city on earth.
With only maps of Seattle and Washington currently available, this project seats you in a virtual car and shows you the view of every part of the city as you cruise and navigate along the roads of the map. Since a cached snapshot is displayed every few steps you move on the city map, I cannot possibly imagine how many photos were taken in total to digitize the whole Seattle. It would be a really cool tool, however, if all major cities on earth could be implemented some day, opening up the possibility of virtual travelling. However for now, have fun in Seattle!
What do you get when you cross Burger King with an XBox 360? Burger King Video Games?!
Yes, it’s true! Over at Kotaku.com, it’s been confirmed that Burger King will be having a go at the video games industry, starting with 3 new titles for the Xbox 360 and featuring in the game none other than the Burger King himself. All three titles will be coming to a BK near you on November 19th. And would you like fries with that, sir?
