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Adventures With A Wii - When It’s Broken!

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Ryan Jarrett
 on July 8, 2008
 in BBC, Games and wii
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I think the Nintendo Wii is fantastic. I’ve had it for 4 months now and I still think its a great machine. The unique control system is still fun to use and has certainly proved to be more than just a gimmick. However, there is one major problem with its design.

I have a two year-old son.  As wonderful as he is, he naturally has the in-built curiosity of a toddler and this can sometimes lead to mischief.  Which is how two plastic coins became stuck in the Wii disk slot, preventing the console from accepting either Wii or Gamecube disks.  The Wii still functioned perfectly in every other way - I could browse the web, look at photos, change my Mii, etc. but I just could not play games.  This could have been easily prevented if there was some way of locking the disk slot, either internally or externally.

Some people might argue that I brought it upon myself by having it at his level, next to the television, where he can reach it.  In my defence, he has never done anything like this before, and there are other appliances within his grasp and they are all working fine (well ok, one DVD player has seen better days, but I’m putting it down to wear and tear and overuse).  Plus the Wii looks its best stood up, and looks even funkier when the base I have is turned on and it shines with all of its blue-LED goodness!

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The Great Orange Balloon Race

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Ryan Jarrett
 on June 18, 2008
 in Games and Site
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You may have noticed a new addition to the site in the bottom-right corner.  That’s because ryanajarrett.com is taking part in Orange’s Internet Balloon Race.  This interesting event, billed as the world’s first ever balloon race across the Internet, starts at 9am on Monday 23rd June.  Anyone can take part - just visit the site, register your details, choose your baloon (shaped as one of Orange’s four contract options - a Dolphin, a Camel, a Canary or a Racoon) and wait for the starting pistol to fire.  You have seven days to travel across as many websites as possible.

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Speedlinks

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Ryan Jarrett
 on May 28, 2008
 in Apple, Bizarre, Gadgets, Games and Speedlinks
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SpeedlinksA shopowner in Colorado, US, came up with an unusual way of thwarting shoplifters.  He’d give them two options - he could go to the police or the felon could give him one of their shoes!  He insisted it worked, but local police said it was an illegal practice and could actually stand as felony robbery, and his since been ordered to stop using his unorthodox method of crimefighting.

SpeedlinksAlton Towers, the theme park in the north of England, has banned PDAs.  I guess this is to encourage “fun” and to discourage long phone calls, extensive browsing sessions and spontaneous games of Solitaire (other single player card games are available).  Is this the start of a trend, banning gadgetry from public places?  Will there be iPod bins standing in the entrances to libraries?  Will ticket inspectors confiscate mobile phones that play tinny-sounding R&B on the London Undeground?  We can only hope!

SpeedlinksMicrosoft demonstrated the latest iteration of Windows, nattily titled Windows 7.  The feature they are pushing the most appears to be the touchscreen capability, with multitouch!!! Wow, a feature that Apple have been using in a product that has been on the market for almost 2 years is now being demoed in a preview of an OS that will come out sometime in the future!  What next?  “Flow Covers”?  Anyway, the really big news is that of Billy Gates’ exit from Microsoft - 1st July 2008.

Apple LogoThe latest iPhone rumour, now that the 3G dust has settled, is that the next gen of Apple’s wonder machines will come in three colours: red, white and black.  The dubious ad makes the new devices look a lot classier than the rainbow coloured iPods, with the colouring being much more subtle, but these are still rumours.  It doesn’t matter much anyway because you will still be able to buy bright pink covers for them no matter how good they look.

PS2Finally, in what has to be one of the biggest own goals ever, Sony’s last-gen console, the PS2, is outselling the PS3!  The 8-year-old console (yes, 8 years!) sold 13.7 million units for the 2007/08 fiscal year compared to 9.2 million PS3s.  Surely the continued success of the PS2 is hindering the sales of the newer console.  Will Sony withdraw the aging console from the market in an effort to boost the success of the PS3?

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