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Economic petri dishes: there's social science in them thar virtual worlds | Games | guardian.co.uk

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Vegas judge not laughing at "Joker" prank

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The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz

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Facebook photo makes him a jailbird - social networking sites being used in the court room

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Rabbi unveils a secret of God | lohud.com | The Journal News

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Edge 250 - George Dyson's "Engineers' Dreams"

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Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

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Digital Vision Program » Ken Banks

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kiwanja.net :: Where technology meets anthropology, conservation and development

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PC World - Business Center: Anthropology's Technology-driven Renaissance

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Student willing to get his feet wet stalks success - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

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Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World

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Social Media 101

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Medical education advances: Using a video game to improve surgeons' skills - Fulton School of Engineering

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‘Wii’ bit of technology aids medical education | ASU News

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Wii bowling knocks over retirement home -- chicagotribune.com

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How Nintendo's Wii is beating out Sony and Microsoft - June 11, 2007

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Videogame controllers generally feature a bewildering array of buttons, and watching an avid gamer work the device, thumbs pattering across plastic, can be intimidating. By contrast the Wii's wireless, motion-sensitive remote, which Miyamoto had been dreaming of for years, often requires no button manipulation whatsoever.
Nintendo is churning out over a million units a month and still can't meet demand.
six months after the Wii's launch, sales are accelerating.
But the Wiimote's magic really comes down to a $2.50 chip developed by a company in Cambridge, Mass., called Analog Devices Inc., (Charts) or ADI. Known as a three-axis accelerometer (see graphic), the chip precisely measures movement in three dimensions. At four square millimeters, several accelerometers would fit on your thumbnail.
Yves Guillemot, president and CEO of French game publisher Ubisoft, says Nintendo has become the top console maker to work with. Two of Ubisoft's games, Rayman: Raving Rabbids and Red Steel (in which you use the Wiimote like a sword), have sold nearly a million units each. "We looked at the capabilities of the Wii early on and saw that it was solving the most important element in the game industry - accessibility," Guillemot says.
Under Miyamoto's creative direction Nintendo has never had a problem coming up with great games. Pokémon, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda - Nintendo titles have dominated the bestseller list for each Nintendo console. But that's not necessarily a good thing for the company. Third-party games increase consumer interest in the hardware, which sells more software.
Miyamoto realized it wasn't a fear of gadgets that kept the average consumer from playing games. "TV remotes are always sitting out on a coffee table or on the sofa, but videogame controllers - people don't want them lying around," he says. "In that sense we thought we were losing to the TV remote. So we thought, What kind of controller can we create that won't make people afraid to touch it?"
when everyone thought the PS3 would solidify Sony's dominance, along came the Wii. With an unheard-of price and few quality games to choose from, the PS3 has produced disappointing sales; the father of the PlayStation, Ken Kutaragi was recently forced to resign his post as chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment.
Nintendo takes its cues from the outside world - Miyamoto's garden, for example, which was the inspiration for the Nintendo game Pikmin. Or from the behavior of everyday people, like the way we leave our TV remotes on the couch. In Miyamoto's eyes technology is just a tool, and less of it is often more. "What I want to do," he says, "is to make it so people can actually feel something unprecedented."

Where is the Wii for Education? :: The Education Business Blog

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YouTube - Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

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YouTube - Foldable Displays (tracked with the Wiimote)

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