Googles booth at Macworld this year was used to demonstrate some of the things it was working on with Apple, chiefly for the iPhone. However the coolest object 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 converse with the software using the bluetooth networking capability of the Wii fit board. The result allowed the user to move forward by leaning forward, move backwards by leaning back, etc.
The developer made the demo to motivate others to code their own programs using similar open source methods.
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