You will sit or I will MAKE you sit. We clear, Skippy?
Because teaching your old dog new tricks is so much easier with a little threatening coercion. “Not gonna heel, huh? Don’t make me get Michael Vick on your ass.” Don’t forget to hold hands and make up afterward. The dog won’t fight for you sit on your lap quietly if it fears doesn’t respect you.
Shooting Watch is a training device for gamers that lets them test their button mashing skills. It resembles an NES controller in yellow with a mini LCD display and the Hudson Bee logo. Bash the A and B buttons to set a record and then try to beat it. Before you know it, your Tetris skills will be off the chain. At $20, a lot of gamers should hop on this if they have any hope to be the best.
Remember the Virgin Galactic Mothership Hunter posted about over the weekend? Well, Designer Burt Rhutan of Scaled Composites and Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin, have unveiled the latest in aviation technology and the world’s largest all carbon composite aircraft, the White Knight 2. It’s capable of reaching heights as great as 50,000 feet and specifies in training pilots for pre space-flight with positive G forces and zero G exercises.
Branson’s interest in space exploration was inspired by Steven Hawking (not the LEGO variety) and it seems like the days of Star Trek are getting closer and closer. With twelve of these babies being built, maybe those weddings in space will be bountiful in the near future. CrunchGear has great live coverage of the event, featuring tons of pictures, videos and facts on the unveiling of the White Knight 2.
After all those brain and IQ training games on DS, Nintendo thinks that the next thing to train would be our eyes! So they announced this all new Eye Power Training game in Japan that works your eyes in 5 ways:
1. Motion vision: the ability of picking up and seeing moving objects clearly
2. Powerful glances: the ability to catch as much information within a very short period of time
3. Eyeball motion: the ability to trace objects with responsive eyeball movements
4. Effective visual field: the ability of making use of the information you see at the rim of your visual field
5. Hand-eye coordination
Nintendo recommends training everyday, with all these polygon flying over the screen, and these oddly artificial “sports-mode” which should resemble real life situation more. Towards the end of the training, the DS will tell you how old your eyes are based on what they can do, you can save your record and see how your eyes improve (or deteriorate) as time goes by. The Eye Power Training program will be available on May31 at $33. –Sam Chan
