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No doubt the Wii players have influenced many people, and everyday there’re new players getting crazy with the fascinating interactive game. And maybe that’s why more and more designers have come to develop new interactive games, just as it did in the case of Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh who have created a motion-controlled version of Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots. Its key ingredient is TI’s accelerometer-equipped Chronos watch, which can translate the players’ actual punches into rock ‘em sock ‘em punches.For more details, you can hit up the source link and the video after the jump. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you don’t have enough money to spend on racing cars but still want to experience high speed, you should at least possess certain wisdom. Because with the power of invention and imagination, everyone can make an awesome interactive race course, just as the sputnic guys have done. Using old paper board, these guys created a RACER Interactive Video Game Installation that allows the players to drive from a first perspective as the small RC car that’s equipped with a wireless video camera is running on the track. So even if you’re simply sitting on a chair, you can still feel like that you’re driving a real car! Really cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Each coming with two built-in squirt jets and a stationary squirt platform, the floating battle system will offer every four kids a wonderful time in the water—they can learn how to attack and defense as well as how to cooperate with others. And those moms and dads, you’ll only need to purchase the Squirt Battle Flotilla for $79.95 here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

These cool T-shirts all come from Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, with orange as its main tone, which symbolizes passion and energy. And also unique in patterns! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Ontario has developed these interactive OLED gaming tiles, which are surely to challenge current toys on the market. By connecting different tiles to each other, you can easily change the gaming background and participant members. And for extra fun, you can flip the tiles to create some unique effects: for example, when you flip the tile full with water to another tile, the water will flow into that tile, just as you can see from the picture on the right side. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Different from those video game players encouraging physical exercises, WiiThink encourages “brain exercise”, which is believed in favor of preventing the elderly from Alzheimer and other developmental diseases. It is a headgear-shaped player and uses the Electroencephalography (EEG) technology to monitor brain waves. It also comes along with a concave earpiece that amplifies the sound inside ears, as well as a speaker promoter for the users to control the game with spoken commands. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Whenever we play a game, no matter it is new or old, we could always find an instruction of the game and everyone has to keep to the rules. But the objective of Flickin’ Chicken is to encourage you to lay down some rules. And usually, people would love to play the game in a way like this: they toss the chicken, hit the target pad with them and then check out how many times they’ve hit the goal.

Your support is always highly appreciated and you’re expected to share your ideas about the game with us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Jefry Tedjokusumo, Steven ZhiYing Zhou and Stefan Winkler, three students from the National University of Singapore, have recently worked together on an innovative gaming system. Designed for an FPS game called Death Match, the new system would change the game a lot, as the players no longer need either keyboard or mouse. Instead, the player is asked to be in a large room installed with sensors, due to which the players are allowed to interact with the virtual game via certain movements in real time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

These clothes are so ordinary. But, the thing the new product is about is the interface on the front, which allows two guys to have some interactive gaming fun. It also comes with an accelerometer at the back, providing you certain control during the game. How to play? Well, actually, what you have to do is to keep rocking back and forth to have the game paddle move.

Control a ball with brain? Oh, man, only if I had a super power, or that will never happen. However, in fact, every one wearing a special apparatus presented here is enabled to keep a ball floating in the air.

It has been on the market since October 1st, 2009. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I love this game —— balling up the paper and throwing it into the dustbin, just like you kick the football into the net or shoot a basket. Joys are everywhere, and you may also feel them even with waste paper. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Origami, originating in Japan, is the art or process of folding paper into different shapes, representing flowers and birds, for example. Yes, it’s popular all around the world, in a classroom, in a park, or in a coffee house. And now you may make beautiful origami in the toilet, since a new kind of toilet roll has been invented. Do you like it? [Read the rest of this entry...]

2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games medals, unveiled recently at Vancouver Olympic village, are claimed to be environment-friendly, super-ellipse medals with undulating surfaces — all firsts in Games history. Except the traditional metallic material, CRT, computer parts, circuit boards and other recycled materials are also used to make these medals, which aims to call for more attention to the ecology business. As the medals are also designed to be “substantial”, they weight between 500 and 576 grams each, among the heaviest medals in Olympic Games history.

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Hello, chess fanciers, are you there in front of your computers to concentrate on the World’s First LED Chess and Checker Set? Yes, with this set you could play chess in the dark night while not disturbing others! Cool! Powered by a plug in adapter or a car adapter, all these pieces are illuminating with inside LEDs, allowing you to enjoy an amusing chess time.

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Hacky sack, a seemingly simple game, actually calls for a good control capacity and an acute observational ability. The former is for a perfect sport show and the later is needed to count how many times one kicks the foot-bag up in the air. But usually we still couldn’t get an exact figure of how many times on earth others have kicked, especially those of the master hacky sack players. In that case, you may need the hacky sack counter, a gadget that is used to keep track of how many times you can keep the hacky sack up in the air without it falling. Perhaps you can also use the counter in a shuttlecock kicking game.

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