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Nintendo Power Glove Updated With Accelerometer, Bluetooth, Irony [Power Glove]
i.gizmodo.com - 4/5/2009
Nintendo Power Glove Updated With Accelerometer, Bluetooth, Irony [Power Glove]
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Instructables has a great hack to turn an old Power Glove , that triumph of silliness, into an Arduino-controlled, Bluetooth-and-accelerometer-sporting modern peripheral. The new and much-improved Power Glove is positioned as kind of a 20th anniversary present to the original Glove. The video ...
Bluetooth 3.0 Is Ready for Prime Time
phonescoop.com - 4/9/2009
Bluetooth 3.0 Is Ready for Prime Time
— phonescoop.com — The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is set to announce the Bluetooth 3.0 specification later this month. Bluetooth... 3.0 will feature dramatically increased speeds, allowing for the transfer of large video files, music collections and photo libraries ... (more) Bluetooth 3.0 Is Ready for Prime Time

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biphenyl.org - 4/3/2009
The Power Glove — 20th Anniversary Edition
— biphenyl.org — I always loved the Nintendo Power Glove. Not because it was a fun or useful peripheral —... it wasn’t. In fact it wasn’t bad, as Lucas asserted, it was absolutely terrible. Only two games were ever made to work with it — Super ... (more) The Power Glove — 20th Anniversary Edition

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dvice.com - 4/10/2009
Bluetooth 3.0 tech specs to be revealed April 21
— dvice.com — On April 21st, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group will officially unveil its Bluetooth 3.0 technology to the... world. Unsurprisingly, Bluetooth 3.0 is promised to be much faster than the current 2.0/2.1 standard, according to the SIG: "Transferring ... (more) Bluetooth 3.0 tech specs to be revealed April 21

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Nintendo Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition
Tech Blog — ... the 20th anniversary of Nintendo's Power Glove accessory, this modder replaced "the original ultrasonic sensors with an accelerometer, the microcontroller with an open-source Arduino, and the wired connection with Bluetooth." Video after the break. The video below gives a pretty detailed instruction for how to tear apart your own Power Glove, presuming you can find one, and also shows him using it with an iPhone boxing game he's developing. [via Gizmodo - Instructables]

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