Thursday, June 07, 2007

Are Wii the Children of the Revolution?

If you look at the carry home game consoles in the past couple of years you would see that you have limited graphics, interactivity, and even the distance you could go without your controller being pulled out of the game. Evolution is a beautiful thing. From ape to man, cartridge to cd, wired to wireless...it's just a part of life. Newer is better but it also does create new problems. With the Nintendo Wii you get reasonable graphics, reasonable size, and wireless controllers with motion sensors. Now if that doesn't sound appealing then I don't know what does. This creates a huge market because they can say yea sure it's a video game but on all the other gaming consoles you're sitting down exercising your fingers more then anything while deteriurating your eyes for a quick fix of entertainment. With us, men, women, and children of all ages can and will want to get involved in this gaming experience. Why sit down when you can jump up and get into the game litterally? There's is a lot of hype surrounding the Nintendo Wii but for the video gaming industry it was pretty revolutionary. Making different colours of the console available doesnt hurt either. If you are looking to have a good time with the whole family and have a little workout while doing it, then Nintendo Wii is the way to go!

Eternal Sunset


Eternal Sunset is a website where you can "enjoy the sunset live from any location at anytime". On Eternal Sunset different web cams across the world tune in continuously so no matter where the sun is setting in the world you can watch it live. This is being made possible through 250 west-facing web cams across 46 countries. That's pretty amazing to organize something so intricate. There is even a countdown to each next available sunrise. Eternal Sunset has to use the web beacuse it's the main source of it's functioning. The whole operation is based on using web cams to convey the sun setting in different parts of the world. The world wide web & internet are necessities to this project. Elements that are unique to this art is the fact that it is interactive and uses new technology to display it. I really liked this art form because it was really different from anything that I really ever seen before. To have 250 web cams across 46 countries all under control is truely amazing in itself. Who ever came up with this idea, I salute them becuase they are a modern day genius. This could even be used for say prisoners whodont get to see the light of day because they're on 24 hour lockdown or something. This was very unique and I liked it alot.

http://www.eternalsunset.net