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more about #medicine Antiterra: Surgeons Using Wiis to Hone Their Skillz, Malpractice Lawsuits Rise 800% (Just kidding, people, I know it's about reflexes, not accuracy.) more » DigitalHero: Nintendo says you can't hone your surgical skills until you buy Wii Motion Plus. Zing! more » EnigmaNemesis: Not being 1:1 at the moment is all too scary! more » Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: i hope they use it with the motion+ cause that thing isn't very exact like we though it was 3 years ago more » thatguy42: This doesn't sound like it would work well without the Wii Motion Plus. For example: -Okay I'm going to start -Now for the incision -Crap I cut his ar... more » Curse lily: Great now we need some attorney to use "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" as a training tool as well. more » Milkzhakes: i dont know man do i really want a causal surgeon operating on me? :) more » BubbleF**kingBuddy: THIS JUST IN: Constantly relying on your reflexes improves them over time. I can't believe it took them so long to notice. They should put DoDonPachi ... more » dowingba: So friend codes don't protect us from Wii Knee either, then. more » resvrgam: Nintendo Wii - proving that stupid people are everywhere since 2006. Seriously, if you injure yourself playing with a Wii, you should be chemically ca... more » Communist_Gamer: Thanks Owen, I just annoyed everybody on my MSN friends list by sending them your Redtube joke :P Good stuff man, you make even the most boring and ai... more » Yossarian: @Mekroth: A better question is why haven't they just shortened the term yet to "Knii". more » cfive3: HOW DO YOU HIT THE BACK OF YOUR HAND WITH THE WII REMOTE!?!? more » -
#forscience
Surgeons Using Wiis to Hone Their Skillz
We've heard of Wiis in medicine before — but now instead of handing out Nintendo's little white giant to burn victims and physical therapy patients, some doctors are using them as training tools. More » -
#wiiknee
Wii Injury Arrives in Time for Holidays
Researchers at two different institutions in the UK have identified an injury, and an increase in its incidence, associated with playing the Wii. More » -
#charity
Angels Donate Wiis To Soldiers
Nonprofit group Soldier's Angels is donating Nintendo Wiis to severely wounded veterans. More » -
#gameaddiction
Compulsive Gaming Is A Not An Addiction
The head of Europe's first treatment center for gaming addicts has revealed that 90% of young people who seek counseling for compulsive gaming habits aren't actually addicts at all. More » -
#gamingscience
Foldit Makes Protein Folding A Game
Could you win a Nobel Prize in Medicine for playing a computer game? Foldit is a game for the PC and Mac that takes the Folding@Home concept and adds a more human element to the mix. Instead of having a network of computers work through all of the possible shapes for folding proteins, a problem so huge it could take centuries for all of the computers in the world to solve, Foldit presents unfolded proteins to the player in the form of puzzles, on the basis that human intuition could tackle the problem much faster."Some people are just able to look at the game and in less than two minutes, get to the top score," said (UW associate professor of computer science and engineering) Zoran Popovic. "They can't even explain what they're doing, but somehow they're able to do it."
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