Comments on: Scientists Glue Wii Remote Parts to Flying Lemurs

By: Willis

Willis — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:00:57 +0000

Your mom is a lay man.

By: Console Patrol

Console Patrol — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:47:35 +0000

Wacky, wacky science: Wii parts glued to flying lemurs for experimentation…

You did, in fact, read that headline right. A backpack using the technology of the Wii controller and the iPod was recently used to aid scientists in gaining more information about how lemurs fly. What did they discover? Here’s……

By: You are all Idiots

You are all Idiots — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:22:49 +0000

So in other words…Scientists are getting too lazy to produce their creative way of finding this out and instead use have baked and cheap ideas….

Are you daft? On a limited budget with limited time, most scientists would not have the time and money to develop a gyroscope and bluetooth combination.

Believe it or not, consumer electronics companies have developed technologies that scientists use regularly. Its not “cheap”… its damn smart.

By: Gashi

Gashi — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:30:00 +0000

Idiots, they used the comparison to Wii and iPod because 95% of the population doesnt understand what an accelerometer or a capacitance based memory chip is. By saying “parts like a Wii remote and iPod” the scientists catch the public’s eye and possibly gain funding for their research. Research doesn’t just happen, its funded by private and public grants, and without reason and interest to continue the study there is no money with which to further investigate these things. They are trying to explain their methods in laymen’s terms to reach the public.

By: mart

mart — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:09:35 +0000

Bit of a misleading title.

By: Insomniak

Insomniak — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:08:47 +0000

So in other words…Scientists are getting too lazy to produce their creative way of finding this out and instead use have baked and cheap ideas….

Why is that a bad thing? You just described how a lot of our greatest inventions in history occurred, from some guy modifying the original use of other inventions. You’re just jealous you’re not as smart as this guy.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

By: R

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:40:49 +0000

The backpack used an accelerometer much like the one used in a Nintendo Wii controller and coupled it with a memory chip similar to an iPod.

They are just descriptive terms which are associating science technologies with leading edge consumer based technologies.

By: ezequiel

ezequiel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:37:35 +0000

this is BAD

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:35:51 +0000

So they strapped an accelerometer and some flash memory to a flying lemur. This article is daft, are you being paid by Nintendo or Apple? Every mp3 player contains “a memory chip similar to an iPod”, why name drop?

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:56:51 +0000

WHAT IS THIS???
OMG I GOT THEM IN MY RACCOON WOUNDS