Pittsburgh students play around with the Wiimote
Folks at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center are of the mind that Wiimotes aren't just for playing games on your Wii. Oh no, inside the bundled mass of plastic, wires and miniature unicorns that make the Wiimote so wonderful, there is something else, something magical (besides the unicorns): hope. Hope for a brighter future, hope for a more perfect world and hope for a device that can do more than just help you get a wicked game on.
In setting the controller up to operate with BigBen (PSC's 4,000 processor, 21-teraflop Cray XT3 supercomputing system), the students used the Wiimote to play Buckyball Bowling. This WiiMD technology will hopefully "offer scientists an easily usable tool to gain insight into simulations" and provide "an entertaining educational outreach tool to help interest students in biology, chemistry and physics." More Wii in the classroom is something we can definitely get behind.
[Via Engadget]
