Will iPhone Get a Stylus? Apple Patents “Digital Ink Recognition”
Apple has filed a patent for some sort of “digital ink recognition” technology.
The ink manager collects separate ink strokes, determines when a whole phrase has been entered and passes that phrase to a handwriting recognition engine.
Whether you were going to get upset or get excited about the idea of a stylus for your iPhone, don’t [...]
33 Months Of Motion Control, The Wii’s Hidden Struggle [Opinion]
The Wii Revolution has succeeded. Everyone knows this. What was once doubted and mocked now dominates and broadly entertains. But a major Wii struggle, made relevant again by the pending release of Wii Sports Resort, has hidden in plain sight.
This stumble in Nintendo’s stride has gained little attention as its competitors chase its dust. It’s [...]
The Many Shapes of Stylus To Come [Stylus]
Tired of your boring old DS stylus? Is the Transformer’s stylus a bit too much? Maybe you should look into a custom stylus from Shapeways.
The company has a service that lets people customize a number of pre-designed styluses, including ones shaped like a Wii remote, a Pokemon and Link’s shield, by selecting the material [...]
Jumpstart Your Heart With A Wii Remote [Health]
Can the Wii remote save lives? The American Heart Association is betting on it, pledging $50,000 to fund a student project that uses Nintendo’s TV killer to teach CPR.
Associate professor of biomechanical engineering at the University of Alabama Greg Walcott came up with the idea for a computer program that uses the wireless technology [...]
Crummy Wii Accessories Finally Triple-Jump The Shark [Wii]
Get a load of this. It’s a Wii accessory kit that contains an incredible 38 pieces. 38! Enough to form a shitty white plastic Voltron, Devastator and Predaking, with enough left over to scrape together a Defensor while you’re at it.
It’s manufactured by Chinese company Areus, and seems to be their “21 in 1″ pack [...]
One Weird Wii Control Scheme [Wii]
Imagine, if you will, a flying game called Sky Crawlers controlled by Wii remote and nunchuck. Guess the control scheme. You probably guessed wrong.
To control an airplane in a Wii game, I have held the Wii Remote like a paper airplane.
I have held it like a flashlight, dipping and raising it to orient where my [...]
Hudson Soft Dials Up The Horror With Calling [Game Announce]
Hudson Soft takes a stab at the horror genre with Calling for the Nintendo Wii, which transforms your Wii remote into a cell phone with direct dial service to the damned.
The Calling plays on classic Japanese horror films like Ringu, with a mysterious website called the Page of Black. A simple black page with a [...]
Nintendo on the Wii Vitality Sensor: You Just Don’t Understand [Nintendo]
The Wii Vitality Sensor was met with a very harsh, possibly unfair reception when it was announced at E3. Now, Nintendo is getting a little defensive about their upcoming medical instrument game peripheral.
Nintendo’s North American President Reggie Fils-Aime explained that the Vitality Sensor is just the latest in a chain of products that are first [...]
Roundup: VCs more confident, Apple patents future iPhone ideas
Here’s the latest action:
Confidence is coming back among venture capitalists — So says the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Index, which measures the mood among dozens of well-known VCs.
Facebook sued for click fraud — RootZoo says its own analytics show discrepancies over how many Facebook users clicked on RootZoo’s ads.
Gawker says ad revenue up 35 percent [...]
Reggie: Be Patient, The Wii Vitality Sensor Will "Wow" You [Nintendo]
Nintendo’s announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor at E3 was met with some amount of befuddlement and a heap of “WTF?” But Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime says, eventually, you will say “Wow, I get it.”
Reggie tells Fast Company that the same confusion—and maybe even some mockery—followed the introduction of the Nintendo [...]
