Nintendo Wii FitWatch

Thanks to frenkieb & yggg for the original images.

I had to write down this concept and hope that one day the big N has the same idea. I’ve had synergy on mind for a week or so and I’ve really been getting into my Wii Fit. It’s great having a gadget that keeps an eye on you and records some useful basic details about you.

How could Nintendo take this concept further?

Nintendo FitWatch

Nintendo is increasingly using Hardware to sell their software, they typically do something we all take for granted but augment it with excellent, fun software. Now fitness watches/gadgets have been around for years, measuring heart rate, distance and speed etc.

Imagine adding some wireless communication to this device and then every morning when you do your Wii Fit weigh in, it uploads a little more data about you. You may be a little wobbly first thing, but the Watch tells Wii Fit that you did a 10 mile run yesterday. You may be, an ideal weight but your watch has noticed an increased heart rate and Wii Fit can advise you to seek some extra help.

It would be an excellent way of augmenting Wii Fit and would provide some very useful input from your activities away from your Wii.

Online Medical Records

Finally, with a whole host of medical tracking websites (including one by Google) on the way, how better than allowing an option to send your records, to these sites, perhaps to allow more detailed analysis, or just for a more permanent record. I feel this last idea would probably be beyond Nintendo’s desires as a Games company but it is worth a thought.

DS One Review

In addition to the DSOne Tutorial I posted a few weeks ago I thought I’d add a quick review.

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• Uses MicroSDHC (Cheap, massive capacity)
• Supercard Team support (Regular updates, good attempt at Chinglish on website)
• Card feels light, but lack of weight makes it pretty tough as it doesn’t have enough mass to damage itself when dropped and like all Slot 1 devices fits flush.
• Comes with easy to use card reader (also excellent presentation box)
• Runs most Homebrew straightaway (a myriad of easy to use tick boxes will let you get software working if it doesn’t)
• Supports download play

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• MicroSD cards are tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny!
• Excessive presentation makes you wonder if they couldn’t have saved a few £££
• Sparse documentation (if you need help go to http://www.scdev.org/forum/)

Overall

If you want to run Homebrew or other software this is a simple, well put together product that is easy to use.

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Synergy – Online Presence

Hi all, you may have noticed a few changes to my lovely site. I’m playing around with my online presence at the mo (which is all over the place and seeing if I can bring some harmony to it. At most it has included bits and pieces from…

• Google Reader
• Flickr
• WordPress
• Youtube
• A whole load of other places

Now instead of tying it all into my Facebook or Friendfeed like a lot of people do I am trying to do a lot of what I would do elsewhere on this site. For example the Site Header logo I am hoping to periodically replace with a new bit of my own artwork (instead of trying to create a new audience on flickr). Instead of embedding video on this blog I may simply link to my Youtube profile (as you need Youtube if anyone is ever going to watch any video you ever make). Finally WordPress already serves it’s purpose well when I have something serious to say (although I would love to be able to post from Twitter).

Now the reason I’m keeping things here is that I love the one-many aspect of ‘tradtional’ websites. As much as it’s great sharing everything with your mates (Facebook/Twitter) or with a specific group of people (Forums), nothing quite beats having a billboard of ideas up on the Internet that people will discover and choose to view.

I do like my Facebook presence, but without any kind of hierachy you get little reward for time and effort invested and without stat tracking or coherent use by the community you surround yourself with, I find it seems too shallow and often very empty.

I plan to continue trying to sync up as much of my creative, online energy into this one domain name. Other methods I’m planning include…

• Adding ChenTV to every post (with more regular updates)
• Getting ideas down in more detail more regularly (a lot of my Twitter stuff just seems to shoot off into infinity
• Doing more and talking less about what i’m doing