Tag: WIIMOTE

The open source initiative needs a catchphrase. 'If you can dream it!', or something. 'Build it and they will come!' -- seriously, the audacity of FLOSS developers, combined with a (surprising...) amount of free time to develop crazy-ass inventions, never ceases to amaze. Case in point: take a look at the Firefox Nintendo Wiimote driver. Watch the video (it's after the break). Cool huh? It ...

As a music fan, sometimes you feel as if you have heard it all. Every music playing application feels generally the same without too much difference. One music playing application stands out in this regard. MXplay is a different kind of music experience, in that it allows you to move the speakers, thus altering the sound in it's 2D panel (as seen in the gallery below). You can also move your head ...

Google has quietly released a version of Google Reader that is optimized for viewing on a Nintendo Wii and navigating with a Wiimote. Because most standard television screens have lower resolutions than computer monitors, the interface features larger fonts and no sidebar with subscription listings. You bring up your list by pressing one and navigate your feeds with the up and down buttons. ...

The thing about using a Nintendo Wii to browse the web is that you've got to use a remote control and a pretty basic web browser by Opera. Sure, it can show full screen and zoomed-in versions of web pages, but what about tabbed browsing? Well, the folks at Warp Pipe Technologies pick up where Opera's developers left off, and have developed Wiiminder -- a tabbed browsing interface. There's no ...