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Input Devices

Physical Rehab Device Built From Wii Balance Boards 30

Posted by samzenpus from the walk-and-play dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Some students at Rice University were recently asked by Shriner's Hospital to build a rehabilitation tool that makes learning to walk entertaining and engaging. Teaching children with spina bifida, or cerebral palsy can be challenging but the game/balance board walkway helps the children develop their motor skills while giving them incentive to keep at it. It's a really cool application of game technology that actually helps people."

Comment Re:Modding the article (Score 2, Insightful) 429

by vasp (#27292027) Attached to: Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered

Also, why replace a $20 item (or even less) with a $200 item (or even more) if all you're going to do is watch TV and DVDs with it?

I guess they recon that in the not-so-distant future every phone will have the equivalent features of todays smartphones. And seeing as just about everybody's got a cellphone these days, people will stop buying remotes because 'hey, I'll just switch channels using my phone, saving me 20 bucks!'

This also adresses the problem of finding the Goddamn remote. It's always on you.

Though I can foresee quite a few arguments with the mrs. when we both have a remote...

Comment Re:Breaking the law (Score 1) 457

by vasp (#27167931) Attached to: BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration
I don't know where you are from, but is your entire government, and all it's government run programs, puppeteered directly by one man/woman/small group of people? Usually governments in western countries have a set of regulators for every sub-organisiation and run these organisations(like BBC,) as if they were companies, untouched by the head of state. Thereby ensuring that they, the government themself, can not step outside the given set of rules in the country or state.
The Internet

Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown 294

Posted by kdawson from the domino-effect dept.
secmartin writes "Researchers at Delft University warn that large parts of the BitTorrent network might collapse if The Pirate Bay is forced to shut down. A large part of the available torrents use The Pirate Bay as tracker, and other available trackers will probably be overloaded if all traffic is shifted there. TPB is currently using eight servers for their trackers. According to the researchers, even trackerless torrents using the DHT protocol will face problems: 'One bug in a DHT sorting routine ensures that it can only "stumble upon success", meaning torrent downloads will not start in seconds or minutes if Pirate Bay goes down in flames.'"
Software

Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? 480

Posted by timothy from the coincidences-abound dept.
aputerguy writes "My Fedora 8 Linux server crashed sometime between 18:59:40 EST (GMT -5:00) and 19:00:00 EST (GMT -5:00) on Dec 31, 2008 which remarkably corresponds to within at most 20 seconds of the New Year in GMT. I have been running this same hardware non-stop for more than six years and other than the occasional reboot for kernel (or distro) upgrades, it has not crashed more than 1 or 2 times in 2237 days of cumulative uptime. Nothing other than background processes were running at the time of the crash. Could this be a coincidence or was there some 2008/2009 rollover issue going on here? Has anyone (other than Zune 30GB owners) noticed similar year-end issues with their computers or electronic devices?"

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