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Shaun White Snowboarding on the Wii

Published on Friday, May 30, 2008 in News and Ski. 0 Comments Tags: Gadgets, Games, Snowboarding.

Following in the successful footsteps of Wii Fit and Namco-Bandai’s We Ski, Nintendo Wii owners can now look forward to the delights of Shaun White Snowboarding. Due to take advantage of the Wii Balance Board in a similar way to the undermentioned games, Shaun White Snowboarding was announced recently at a Paris Press Conference.

Shaun White Snowboarding on the Wii

Ubisoft will be behind the game and it’s expected to be demoed at this year’s E3 conference – an annual gaming event in Las Vegas. Players use both the board and remote at the same time to control and perform tricks.

It’s been a while since we’ve had a really decent snowboarding game, so hopefully this will fill the gap nicely. The addition of it using the balance board will definitely make it more interesting and it’s obviously nice and easy to market, too.

It will also be available on PS3 and XBox, but who wants to play with just a pad!?

World’s Biggest Drawing

Published on Sunday, May 25, 2008 in General. 0 Comments Tags: Art, Flights, Gadgets, Worldwide.

I’m not too sure about this one; is this even possible? Erik Nordenankar created a self-portrait across the entire globe by sending a GPS tracking system through the skies, with a little help from DHL.

The World's Biggest Drawing by Erik Nordenankar

How was it done? By using a GPS tracking system with bespoke software that traced its own movements onto a map. This GPS was then sent around the world, in a briefcase, via DHL’s transport systems to create the image.

The briefcase became my pen and the world became my paper

Nordenankar modestly noted. I can imagine something like this takes an immense amount of planning and an unimaginable amount of co-operation with DHL, which is what makes me suspicious. Nonetheless, the video on the world’s biggest drawing website makes it that much more believable.

There’s even a list of all the directions for DHL to make the drawing possible. It’s all pretty amazing. More here: http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/

Update: This has indeed now been confirmed as a hoax. Erik Nordenankar has been confirmed as a hoaxer after DHL revealed no such partnership took place and Nordenankar’s filming was allowed on the understanding that it would be for a college project on Stockholm warehouses. I still think it’s amazing to have the idea and to execute the hoax so incredibly. Well done Erik Nordenankar, I say.