venturebeat.com — Google used its booth at Macworld this year to show off some of the things it was working on with Apple, particularly for the iPhone. But the coolest thing at their booth didn?t have much to do with Apple at all: A hacked Nintendo Wii Balance Board (from the game Wii Fit) used to control Google Earth.
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damnmonkeyJan 9, 2009
You're such a dark and troubled soul. You must be trouble with a capital T!
zakool21Jan 10, 2009
I saw this at Macworld and it was glitchy and pretty lame. How is this innovative at all?
me0wmixJan 10, 2009
Surfing; literally.
suburbancowJan 10, 2009
Um, it is. Wii Fit has skiing and snowboarding, albeit fairly simplistic versions. There's a bunch of other snowboarding games, too.Unless you mean games that are played through Google Earth. In which case, I'll STFU.
diggimatorJan 10, 2009
Not to mention staying out of sight of that evil yellow face!
Closed AccountJan 10, 2009
ho ho ho!
harusp3xJan 10, 2009
Nope. Still not "literally" surfing. We're getting there, though.
jergerbJan 10, 2009
I actually met both of those people in the photo at MacWorld. I asked the girl to hook me up to Mt. Everest so I could jump over it. Basically I got my vehicle stuck in the mountain and they had to reset the map. It wasnt that fun. You couldn't even make the car hop.
ultralightsJan 11, 2009
i want to see a Wii nunchuck that will control a mouse and a massice clear LCD screen, minority report style!