Tag: Wii

Wii are connected

Today I went to the city to visit some toy stores and in the end I paid a pre-order for a Wii package. Super Mario Galaxy and Zelda Twilight Princess are quite likely to follow when I’m about to pick this small gem up next week. Although, I’m not personally picking it up because on that day, despite being a holiday, I’m attending a Java training at my workplace.

Yeah, finally I’m jumping into Java full-scale. 5-day training lessons. Hopefully it’ll have some effect on my current position or unintentional "project affinity" at work. Some new challenges would really be nice.

2006-12-02
Wii are only few days away

Only seven days to go and then the Nintendo Wii will hit stores in europe. Well, not for long. I guess the Wii packages won’t be in the stores for a long time.

Nevertheless, do you remember my idea from May, where I suggested the Wii Remote as input device for PCs?

Looks like that idea is now in process of being realized by the WiiLi project here. And more, a full-blown Live Linux on the Wii would be quite cool stuff, wouldn’t it?

2006-12-01
Nintendo and iRex gadget excitement
The last few days caused quite some excitement for me because I got aware of some real good news for me and my geeky, childish mind.

First off with Nintendo:
- the Nintendo Wii totally ruled the show
- it’s rumoured that it’ll ship at around 250$. See the interview with Iwata ("…price won’t be significantly higher than Nintendo’s prices have been historically…") and a price roundup in a comment at Kontaku. Also there had been an article stating that price on Revolution Report but that site has been replaced (by Nintendo to cover the price?). Perhaps you’re lucky and still can find a cached version on Googles cache.
- it’ll play NES, SNES, N64 and even some Sega games
- I read somewhere that it’ll connect wirelessly with the Gamecube and Nintendo DS, but was unable to dig up that link immediately
Wow. I’ve been really thinking about pre-ordering the Wii, as soon as it’s possible. Another thing I’ve been thinking of: The controller of the Wii will connect via Bluetooth. Would it be possible to connect it with a standard PC on Windows or Linux using a bluetooth receiver? Could that be possible? Someone to take that idea? Playing Oblivion with the Wii-controller would be incredible. A nice-looking news-site for the Wii seems to be Nintendo Wii News. And this Wii Montage on Google Video pretty much sums up all the fun.

The second gadged is the iRex iLiad:
- it has support for non-DRM-ed content
- LAN/WLAN/USB/SD-MMC/etc. …
- E-Ink display
- and it’ll run on some sorts of Linux
There’s a nice coverage on TeleRead: A first look on the iRex Iliad. If it wouldn’t have a price around 500$, I’d buy it as soon as possible. But I’ll certainly have to think about that again.
2006-05-16