In setting the controller up to operate with BigBen (PSC's 4,000 processor, 21-teraflop Cray XT3 supercomputing system), the students used the Wiimote to play Buckyball Bowling. This WiiMD technology will hopefully "offer scientists an easily usable tool to gain insight into simulations" and provide "an entertaining educational outreach tool to help interest students in biology, chemistry and physics." More Wii in the classroom is something we can definitely get behind.
[Via Engadget]
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12-06-2007 @ 7:16PM
DarkGhost1 said...
i could sure use some Nintendo game product right about now
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12-06-2007 @ 7:40PM
gevenstaines said...
no fair. i wanna play games on a 21 teraFLOP/S machine.
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12-06-2007 @ 7:52PM
DBuck_Eye said...
Pittsburgh FTW!! We've got the best football team in the NFL (you'll see, you'll all see), more bridges than any other city in America (second in the world only to Venice, which shouldn't even count), and now we have a fairly useless wiimote-enabled application. Pittsburgh Rules!!!
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12-06-2007 @ 9:01PM
Archibold said...
Actually, Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice.
By "official" count, there are 446, in Venice, 443.
http://www.popcitymedia.com/inthenews/26bridges.aspx
12-07-2007 @ 5:06PM
WiiFTW said...
I second the Pittsburgh FTW. Pittsburgh is the bomb especially with sports teams, 'cept the Pirates, who blow, but have a nice ball park. I want to see this in my high school science classes now though...my current biology is as boring as the PS3.