Enter, the Nintendo Wii. Even though this little sucker isn’t the most impressive, graphics-wise, it sure does make up for it with style and innovation. The most amazing thing about the Wii is how it makes the user physically interact with the games. Sensitive motion sensors within the controllers allow your movements to control the action taking place on the screen. For example, let’s say you are playing Wii Tennis. You would swing the control as you would a tennis racket to hit the ball back towards your opponent. Same would go with baseball, sword fights, and you guessed it, first person shooters.

“Even though this little sucker isn’t the most impressive, graphics-wise, it sure does make up for it with style and innovation.”

The Wii boasts an impressive library of games consisting of more than 300 titles, though still not as many as its competitors. Games like Trauma Center, in which you are a surgeon and have to save lives at the operating table. You use your Wii-mote to cut with a scalpel or even bandage your patient up post-op. Titles like Call of Duty, Zelda, Metroid are already out for the Wii. If anything, at least your friends can’t say that playing video games makes you lazy.

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Even though battery technology improves annually, it’s still not as versatile as its users, and nowhere near as reliable as it should be. So where do we turn for a cure to this technological ailment? Brunton Inc. decided that we should turn to our Sun for an answer.

Two years ago I could fill up my Honda Civic with $25. Now, every time I stop for gas, I feel like I’m being mugged due to my wallet being more empty than it should be. I now spend almost $50 just to fill up the tank. My sister, who owns a Chevy Tahoe, spends upwards of $90 in mid-grade alone, and the prices are just going to keep rising. So, whether you’re an environmentalist or not, we’re all looking for new alternatives to Bush’s gasoline.
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The Lightning is a single seater, single engine and stealth-capable jet with a plethora of abilities. Designed for close-air support, along with tactical bombing and holding it’s own in a dog fight, the F-35 boasts versatility as it’s lethal innuendo. Vertical take-off without the use of coven.

The F-35 is also currently being tested with voice recognition, in hopes to allow less prep time for the pilot. I didn’t find much information on how the speech recognition would allow for less prep time, but maybe you can save your settings and the jet would preset them according to who the pilot would be at the time. What I do know is that DynaSpeak is running the test for speech recognition. Kevin Hall said it best at Sci Fi Tech with, “The software doesn’t appear to allow for flight control, though — “land” probably wouldn’t do much.”
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It is very frightening to imagine a world in which nothing grows, and oxygen masks become an everyday necessity. So many times have we been warned about the decline of the environment, and still have we to find a suitable solution. MIT does not hope to end global warming with the “City Car”, but they hope to influence a movement in that direction.

Public transportation, as we all know it, sucks. You either have to pay large quantities of money to a shady taxi driver or stand in a bus/train feeling somewhat like a sardine doused in sweat. As you can tell, I’ve used the South Florida public transportation system. I’m sure New York, Mexico City and Tokyo can feel me on that little tid-bit. On the other hand, carpooling and public transportation is very important in the cause to end global warming. MIT wants to change the way we look at public transportation so that people use it.
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