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"I end up letting my PS3 fold for days at a time...it may as well be doing something."]]>Dec 6th 2007 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/Dec 5th 2007 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/Dec 5th 2007 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/Dec 5th 2007 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/

i'm always happy to see people applying technology to useful areas. even if nintendo isn't the one making the wiimote accessible as a lecture and simulation tool in the educational sense, i think every new story i read about other people doing just that really makes me happy that nintendo decided to innovate on the controller and game design.

it's funny how video game design and innovation has done so much for other realms of science. or, maybe not 'done so much' just yet, but, from the looks of things, it will.]]>Dec 5th 2007 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/
they COULD have released the controller as an add on for gamecube, but would have had hard time selling so old console probably(wii games don't look that much better than gamecube games, most of the time they look like gamecube games....).


however, it's not the first controller with motion sensors.. it's just the first hyped and popular.]]>Dec 5th 2007 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/

so, before you drop knowledge on me, please read my comment and understand that the gist of it isn't drooling awe over how 'revolutionary' the wii is. because you know what? it's not. it's a great innovation, and it's been needed for a long time. but it was just a blending of a lot of old ideas put together in the right place, at the right time, and by the right people.


i merely said that i was happily impressed by how many other people have used it in so many great ways, and how impressive it was to know that it's helping in areas like science and education.


thanks for the irrelevant information, though. it was... nice of you?]]>Dec 5th 2007 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/Dec 5th 2007 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/Dec 5th 2007 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/
If you follow tke link you'll find a bit more detail and "The resulting technology, called WiiMD, merges the WiiMote with MD, a powerful computational method to track forces among atoms in molecules as they move." and "Other WiiMD demonstrations involved using the WiiMote to unfold a small protein and to move a small sugar molecule through a protein channel."

Disclosure: I work at this place though not on this project.]]>Dec 5th 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/Dec 5th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/wiimote-used-in-buckyball-bowling-other-educational-simulations/Dec 5th 2007 7:36PM