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WiiMan, the Nintendo Wii Super Hero

Posted by timothy on from the good-use-of-free-time dept.

rafaelmizrahi writes "WiiMan the Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote. Having trouble playing Wii? WiiMan to the rescue. This GarageGeeks project combines Gaming, Technology and Useless Activity to the extreme. Rafael Mizrahi, an artificial vision and experience explorer at Feng-GUI and a GarageGeeks member along with Yael Hertzog built this custom costume that acts as a fully functional Nintendo WiiMote remote with buttons, bluetooth, accelerometers, and an IR cam. BTW, last year, they built another hero, The Guitar Hero Noid, a robot built with Tal Chalozin that plays the PlayStation game Guitar Hero." (You might have better luck reaching the GarageGeeks site's Google cache.)

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  1. NOT WORK SAFE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Feng-GUI link is not work safe!

  2. Somebody please tell me... by Plazmid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    what the heck is this, and why is it on slashdot?

    1. Re:Somebody please tell me... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There are times I wonder about Slashdot. They ignore the HUGE story that Rock Band for the Wii will be horribly nerfed, but post stories about some weirdo who decides to dress up in a white costume that says "Wii" on it.

      What ever happened to "Stuff that Matters"? It seems to be less and less true these days. :-(

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      Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
    2. Re:Somebody please tell me... by carlzum · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's a (admittedly) useless hobby project that combines video games and engineering. In other words, nerd entertainment... which is why it's on entertainment.slashdot.org.

    3. Re:Somebody please tell me... by Robert1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Good question. I must have read the first sentence 10 times, it still makes no sense.

      "WiiMan the Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote"

      what the hell does that even mean? its like some abortion of a palindrome "Wii --> Super Hero --> action figure -- Super Hero -- Wii."

  3. Duff man? by kingcool1432 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one who's reminded of the 'Duff man' from The Simpsons?

  4. 'Fess up by kingcool1432 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alright 'fess up people, how many of you skipped RTFA before and went back up to check the link after reading this?