New way to keep warm

I got the kids a Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit for Christmas, the Wii fit will have you turning the thermostat down to 50 I never thought I would see the day where kids and adults alike like to play with a scale. The future is now!

I want to take one of those apart to see how they work. My sister has a WII. We played bowling one night. The controller follows your hand movement. If you twist your hand the ball hooks. If you throw your hand back real quick the game lofts the ball into the audience. Amazing technology. Maybe I'll take my sister's apart when she's not looking.

billw wrote:I want to take one of those apart to see how they work.

Can you say accelerometer? It IS amazing technology, but that's basically what makes them work. A little electronic device that can "feel" acceleration. Put in three of them, up, down, & sideways. Now you now have multi direction control. They are used to deploy air bags.... It's not 'cause you hit a tree, it's cause the accelerometer "feels" a G force above it's set parameter.

Thanks Fred,
Now I've got to go search to find some images, specs and schematics. BTW how do you pronounce this accelerometer thingy?

Here's some great information on how it works. http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/wii.htm

e.alleg wrote:I got the kids a Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit for Christmas, the Wii fit will have you turning the thermostat down to 50 I never thought I would see the day where kids and adults alike like to play with a scale. The future is now!

We got one too now mii wife put me on a diet (man I need a cookie )

I read a Wii Fit review somewhere (sorry, can't remember where) that described it as a glorified (and inaccurate!) scale. The reviewer said the exercises were pretty bad and got boring very quickly, but it was pretty good for tracking your weight-loss progress. Even though it measured weight inaccurately, it was consistent, so it could tell you if you were gaining or losing. There were pictures of graphs that it created that looked pretty good.

spotcatbug wrote:I read a Wii Fit review somewhere (sorry, can't remember where) that described it as a glorified (and inaccurate!) scale. The reviewer said the exercises were pretty bad and got boring very quickly, but it was pretty good for tracking your weight-loss progress. Even though it measured weight inaccurately, it was consistent, so it could tell you if you were gaining or losing. There were pictures of graphs that it created that looked pretty good.

Not sure how inaccurate it is, say's I'm a lardass and that's pretty much true.
I guess boring is in the eye of the beholder, the more you do the more games you unlock, I've actually been doing the Yoga exercises and my back feels better.
It isn't Golds Gym but it works

I say only boring people get bored. The Wii fit games are just tricks to make you exercise, they aren't as fun as Mario Kart but they are a fun way to get your body moving. I can't see why they would make the scale inaccurate but it's possible, it's as accurate as my bathroom scale. I think the reviewer simply got pissed off he had to take time away from his XboX never ending online war to review a scale

Lifting Free weights isn't exactly mind stimulating either.

Neither is running, on a track or treadmill.