Transform your Wii Remote into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and more…

 

Here’s a cool video showing how inventor Johnny Chung Lee transforms the Nintendo Wii Remote - a $40 game accessory into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and a head mounted virtual reality gear. Johnny is a PhD Graduate student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University and his project was recently featured on TED.

I needn’t say more… the video speaks for itself. There’s just one word for it - breathtaking.

The software required to make this hack work can be freely downloaded from Johnny’s Projects homepage. And while I was digging up more information on Johnny Lee, I came across one more of his innovations… a foldable interactive display. Here you go…


Chawt (free SMS service) isn’t so ‘unlimited’ after all

 

Following my review of Chawt - the free SMS service - a couple of weeks back, I decided to swing by again and check out the improvements (if any). To my surprise I saw a new message below the message typing box which states that your are now limited to sending at the most 15 messages per day. Poooof !! …

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