Apartment Therapy Unplugged brings to light an awesomely geeky DIY mod — turning an old Super Nintendo controller into a doorbell. At one point in its life, pressing the A button would have told Mario to jump up and land on a Goomba, but not anymore. Alas, the game itself and the system are no [...]
Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s PS3 Eye caught most of the attention at this year’s E3 conference, but Nintendo’s Wii, the pioneer of wireless motion-sensitive control, also had something up its sleeve. Keeping in line with its family fun and fitness theme, the Wii announced with gamemaker Ubisoft the release of a camera-based fitness game, [...]
This is the promotional video Microsoft for the XBox Natal, premiered at the E3 conference, which I neglected to put up in an earlier post. It looks pretty amazing, and definitely a step up from the Nintendo Wii’s approach to interactive family entertainment. By comparison, the PS3’s Playstation Eye and motion-sensitive controller looks more like [...]
In the past week, both Sony and Microsoft have jumped into the motion sensor fray, which is currently dominated by Nintendo’s Wii.
Microsoft’s Natal is an add-on device to the XBox 360, which seems to be the most innovative of the bunch. Instead of using a motion-sensitive controller, you become the controller. The add-on will offer features [...]
