Propriocentrics: Creating tech marvels out of a $50 Wii Remote

Convergence widgets
I see the location sensing component of the Wii remote as one of the functions of our future palm sized media players; PDA/3G/GPS/IP/WiFi/TV.

A PDA with the graphics performance delivered by the chip architecture in the Sony Playstation Portable [PSP], the user interface and connectivity of the iPhone, the personal location sensing capacity of a Nintendo Wii type remote and the Geo location sensing that GPS and 3G bring, will enable a unit with these bundled attributes ready to seamlessly absorb what is now technically available to be stremed.

Sony PSP have released a Linux based programmable interface so that Astronomers, Robotocists, climate modellers etc can pout their unit to other tasks.
iPhone has already been cracked and again is being used for unintended purposes, though Apple are slower to jump onto the open source collaborative model. Nintendo Wii [largest gaming unit sales in the US above Xbox and Playstation] seem likely to embrace the 'emergent consequences' of whatever uses the Wii remote will be put to. [Science, Gaming, Location Specific-On demand Content services]
The great thing about Second Life is that it is easy to conceptualise and model how such 'live connectivity aides' work for our personal avatar, and by extension, how we of the meat space can leverage our reality via them.

PanculturaLe-earnscope

'Bunging on Side' with your host....
Betty Pearce
Shes' indomitable, shes' indubitable and verily I say unto you the woman is irrepressible, she's also be a bit of a 'rum un' too.
Anyway, Betty is 70 odd years young and has been our most ardent IAD based supporter. Traversing multiple roles over the years with IAD; [board member, director, deputy director, deputy sheriff and currently head of the Language and Culture Dept.] Betty, Norman Illes and I recently had the opportunity to 'bung on side' [an Aussie term for big noting oneself] by riding around Alice in a nice flash car and podding our way from a lap-mounted Mac-book into the Learnscope project podcasts.
Betty is one of those uncommon folk with a degree in English, you don't see much of that these days eh? As a Tribal Elder for the Alice Springs area, sitting on a bewildering array boards and committees and a Natural Statesperson to boot Betty, along with Norman Illes, are our newest Learnscope participants.

Norman, born a raised in the Alice and Jack of all trades, has lived and worked in most capital cities of this, our fair continent. He danced with Redfern Dance troupe for 3 years, is a qualified hairdresser etc etc. 'Country' called him back to Alice a few years ago; and he recently joined IAD as administrative assistant for Betty in the Language and Culture Department. Norman also co-delivers the IAD cultural awareness program [ACAP] with Betty.
Did I mention Norm's quite a whizz on matters digital? As he and Betty deliver the ACAP program, Norman will navigate around the various mutli-media archives displaying pertinent content to the masses. As such, Norman is the 'navigator' for the re-invented, Web Browser based, multi-media extravaganza ACAP program and as Betty vocally delivers, Norman augments the commentry by displaying pertinent media. And... as the guy's so eloquent, we're re-working some of the podcast commentaries and voice-over vodcasts to include those dulcet tones.
And yes, okay already, there have been a few hiccups.......