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Motion-sensor replaces laptop keyboard

Researchers have used movement sensing technology like that in Nitendo's Wii gaming console technology to develop a device for laptops that removes the need for a keyboard or a mouse.

The adaptor, called BT Balance, can be plugged into any laptop and allows you to manipulate menus or move a cursor by tilting the machine.

Adam Oliver, head of age and disability research BT’s Adastral Park R&D centre near Ipswich, helped develop the device. He said: "The technology has obvious implications for those who are disabled or elderly and have difficulty using a fiddly laptop keyboard or mouse.

"We also wanted to create an interface that was simple and intuitive. Standard ways of controlling PC applications can be too complicated, so we decided to use the analogy of a book to work with.


Are Wii Having Fun Yet?

My oldest son recently had his 10th birthday. Somehow we found a Wii video game console to buy for him. It was meant to be his present. But the whole family is enjoying it. The included disc of games - Wii Sports - is incredible. Bowling, Tennis, Baseball, Golf, and Boxing are all included. You've probably played video game versions of these sports before, but interacting with the actual physical motions of the game is a far cry from a joystick.

For example, when I Bowl - in the real world - the Bowling ball tends to curve slightly left. I compensate by moving right. My wife's ball rolls straight. Amazingly, when we Bowl with the Wii it's the same. I have to start from the right of the lane while she rolls right down the middle. That's how well the experience is simulated.

If only all Wii games were this good.


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Today

Collier St. United Church Women invite you and your friends to their annual Maytime Tea from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come and enjoy afternoon tea/coffee with sandwiches and goodies for $5, then browse and shop at the boutiques. Available items include linens, frozen fruit pies, fresh butter tarts, garden plants, homemade quiche, spaghetti sauce, soup and baked goods.


Space Shoot: Online gamers get a taste of 'Halo 3'

You remember your first kiss and your first car. And if you're a hardcore, bleary eyed video gamer with too many 5 a.m. killing sprees in your pocket, you remember the first time you played Hal" until you couldn't feel your red, raw thumbs anymore.

It was super happy awesome fun times, a Doom-style shooter set in outer space. You fired rocket launchers at rivals while you jumped 20 feet in the air to secure high ground. It was a real eye-opener to what glory was possible on the Xbox. Then came the improved Halo 2.

Now the gaming world awaits the Sept. 25 release of Halo 3. But if you're antsy, you can already download and play a short preview version through Xbox Live, though you have to own or rent Crackdown for the Xbox 360 to do so. (Crackdown itself is a stellar, GTA-ripoff shooting game.)

There's not much Halo 3 at your disposal through Xbox Live, but it's enough to discover the beta, at least, plays and feels like Halo 2 Continued with upgrades of visuals and weapons.


Interviews on Final Fantasy's Nintendo DS, Wii Assault

However, since the interviews were held in a roundtable, round-robin style, we had to share oxygen with editors from competing websites who would whittle away our precious few minutes with vague drivel like "So, what do you see in the future of Final Fantasy?" To help cut the wheat from the chaff, though, we liberated our inquiries from the roundtable hellhole in which they were born, and collected them here for your perusal.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (DS) and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Wii) The Interviewees:
Toshiyuki Itahana, director for FF CC: The Crystal Bearers, and character designer for the original Crystal Chronicles, The Crystal Bearers, and Ring of Fates. Mitsuru Kamiyama, director of Ring of Fates.

1UP: Is Crystal Bearers the first game you've directed and what kind of plans do you have for the title?

Toshiyuki Itahana: Actually the first title I directed was Code Age: Commanders, which was not released in the States.


 
 
 
 

 
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