Take a look at EA Sports new pop-up training centers that encourage better personal fitness.

Media artist YoungHyun Chung has created Digital Wheel Art, an interactive system that allows for physically challenged individuals to create paintings and drawings. Utilizing common technological tools like Nintendo’s Wiimote, users can control onscreen brushstrokes  by moving through space. Watch a demo below.

Digital Wheel Art from YoungHyun Chung on Vimeo.
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For fans of light writing, there is now a handy LED light specifically designed for those familiar with graffiti using a spray can.  The fake aerosol can, designed by Aïssa Logerot, is called Haloand simply replaces the nozzle with a tiny LED.  Logerot has a number of innovative light designs and is currently based in Paris.

The real creativity in the Halo design comes in the possibilities of manipulation.  The light’s brightness can be changed and the colors are interchangeable.  The power is generated by shaking the bottle, just like a spray can.  The design reminds us of the WiiSpray and [...]

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will be examining how the motion-controlled Nintendo Wii remote can be used as part of a PC software based program to help teach CPR. The American Heart Association has already pledged $50,000 to help fund this promising student program. Though nothing has been said by Nintendo in regards to the idea, it’s hoped that they’ll pick it up as an official application.
[Popular Science via Neatorama]
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WiiSpray – The Video

One of our most popular articles of last year was a simple piece on an art project where Martin Lihs at Bauhaus-University concepted a wii-controller as a virtual spray can. At the time all we had was this iconic image but the artist has just released this video from his final diploma presentation of WiiSpray 2nd edition at eWerk. The technology just uses Nintendo Wii technics and Flash.

Over on the WiiSpray site, Martin Lihs explains the project:
The foundational basis for the project goes well beyond replacing real graffiti as an art form. Moreover, WiiSpray is to be seen [...]

Two German artificial intelligence researchers have developed a hack for the Wii Fit that allows them to surf Google Earth terrain. While the Wii Fit has already demonstrated another capability in the internet-assisted health care realm, the hack gives it a fun new use by taking advantage of the boards 4 ‘wobbling’ sensors, converting them into steering and throttle, allowing the user to cruise over the satellite mapped ground like famed Marvel comic hero Silver Surfer.

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Nintendo Japan is jumping on board the growing wave of internet assisted health care practices with their new Wii “Check-Up” channel. Developed along with Hitachi, NEC, Panasonic and an unnamed health insurance company, the service will offer a communications space where users can get advice from health professionals using the Wii Fit and NEC’s mobile phone platform. Fit users have had success in the past using the system as a method for getting in shape, and now the check-up channel looks like a valuable enhancement.
[via Engadget]

According to the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), video game sales in the UK has hit an all time record high of 82.8 million in sales.  Consumers spent over £4 billion in total on video game related items and many are pointing to the incredible success of blockbuster titles like Grand Theft Auto 4 and World of Warcraft.  Another reason for growth is the expansion of the marketplace to casual gamers and the ability for each console appeal to different types of gamers.  The Nintendo Wii, DS, Microsoft Xbox 360 and even the Sony Playstation 3 all reported [...]

Nintendo have announced that it plans to deliver video-on-demand to internet-enabled owners of the Wii gaming concole. The service will commence in Japan in spring but the Telegraph reports that it could be rolled out globally by the end of the year. Almost half of Wii owners have connected their console to the web and this will give the technology company a viewership of over 18 million viewers. The Telegraph reveals some of the details in their report:
Broadcasts will be made exclusively for the Nintendo channel and will include cartoons, cookery programmes, brain-training quizzes and lifestyle shows. Most of the [...]