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Google hacks the Wii Balance Board to surf Google Earth
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9th January 2009, 21:03
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  Google hacks the Wii Balance Board to surf Google Earth 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. Using the Google Earth application programming interface (API), a Google engineer was able to get the Balance Board to talk to the program after decoding the Bluetooth packets being sent from the board (that’s how the device wirelessly interacts with a machine like the Nintendo Wii). The result (which you can see in the video below) allows users to move forward by leaning forward, move backwards by leaning back, etc. http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/08/go...rth-literally/
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