"We have been introducing [Casmobot] to the professional workers at the municipalities and the minute they got this Wiimote in their hands and started cutting grass, they were smiling and laughing all the time so I guess I’m not the only one that thinks this is a very good idea."
Because, honestly, we are all too lazy to cut the grass the old fashioned way.
You may have seen this around the Internet or on TV, but apparently we have reached a whole new level. I'm not sure what is more crazy, someone killing their dog while playing Wii Bowling, or that the neighbor came over and gave the dog mouth to mouth to save it. Looks like the dog will survive but still has some brain swelling that may be permanent. Well, at least her wrist strap didn't break.
Oh how we love this woman, not just because these photos make her look like she's turned on by that huge shiner. But because she's not a blonde - no offense to blonds - well, ok, yea we meant offense. We love her because this photo alone is what motivated us to go back to posting all the awesome Wii related injuries we've received over the last few years. Too bad we check our email like once every two years or we would have posted this earlier honey. Here is what she had to say about this "Remote to the face" injury...
These photos follow the after math of a night of Wii Tennis, some drunk a-hole swung back, into my face. When it initially happened, I just felt this influx of pain to my face, I wasn't even sure what had just transpired, because we had had the Wii for 3 months and no accidents or injuries had occurred.
I ran to the bathroom where my eye proceeded to gush blood for about 5 - 10 minutes, it was totally sexy.
So here are some silly and stupid photos of me and my black eye. Coincidentally I was between jobs at the time, and going on tons of job interviews, and yes, I had to explain my eye to a lot of people. :) because even some interviewers wouldn't ask, and I would just have to be like "Look, I know you are staring at my ridiculous shiner, however there is a plausible explanation, no, my boyfriend doesn't hit me, no I was not in any sort of car accident, and no, I did not 'walk into a door'..... Do you know what a Wii is?"
Rock on baby, we love the attitude. You can swing by later and we can take some more recent photos for our private collection.
After a long hiatus we here at WHAP are back and want to let our readers know that we are working on some big changes in the near future that you will all appreciate. So keep those stories coming in and keep having fun!
Growing up I was always told that if you threw a penny off the Empire State Building it would make a huge crater upon hitting the ground. Naturally, such a claim needs tested first hand. Unfortunately, I can assure you that it is absolutely impossible to discover the results of this test when the security guard is handcuffing you because some tourist who witnessed the experiment was a tattletale. This story proves beyond a reasonable doubt that a Wiimote is denser then a skyscraper window…
On Sunday July 23rd 2007, a Wii Remote committed suicide by launching itself through the blinds and through the window of John Doe's apartment. No one was injured as the glass and controller landed on the roof of the restaurant 12 stories below. There are now alleged reports that this may be an involuntary manslaughter case due to INNOCENT PROTECTED's fingerprints being found on the controller. The controller wrist strap broke off of the primary suspect's wrist and Wii Bowling was believed to be playing at the time of the incident. Witnesses could not be immediately contacted for comment.
Those poor restaurant patrons had no idea how close death was that day. It was there... on the 12th floor... Stalking them! Moral of the story? Take as many awesome photos covering the event as this reader did. It's like Carmen San Diego adventure all over again!
A new product is due soon that should protect your precious HDTV, even if you should manage to demolish every other object in your living room during a fitful round of Wii-ing. Looking at it, it seems nice enough, but given the erratic world of Wii controller airborne trajectories, it doesn't seem to be particularly ricochet-proof.
On your fifth HDTV since buying a Wii? Yeah, we are too -- maybe it's time to get your display a little something designed to protect it against the occasional glancing blow from an errant Wiimote. Sketchy though the Taiwanese company's site may seem (apologies in advance, we're not clear on any US distributors), LCDArm claims its impact-resistant Safety Shield passes through 98% of light, reduces UV, and, of course, is the ideal candidate for protecting your high-def investment from your decidedly low-def motion-sensitive console, whose controller has been occasionally known to fly out of the hands of adoring fans with truly horrific results.
Next up...a Safety Shield 'glove' that protects your five-digited fleshy investment against those decidedly motion-inhibiting coffee table edges...
They didn't mention this practical use for a Wii controller in the operator's manual, evidently.
In times to come, there will doubtless be reports of roving gangs of Wii controller-armed heavyset thugs lurking around gaming stores and threatening PS3 and X-Box players with wtfpwnage headshots unless they renounce their fanboyism. Jack Thompson will love it.
These guys are just straight up industrious! They built themselves a robot out of legos that throws perfect strikes on via the Wii.
"You are looking at a Wii Remote mounted on a robotically controlled swing. A second motor is used to trigger the bowling, by first Pressing the A button and left arrow, and then holding down the B button, swinging, and finally releasing the B button."
That beats the heck out of the pyramid that I built with legos. Apparently some were born to create feats of engineering, and I was born to make fun of it. They've got a plethora of pictures and a video to go with it over on their site.
Just in case anyone missed it. Wii.tv has released an April Fools video on us all, trying to convince us that there is going to be a new Zelda set in the future. Their video is a little too long of a trip to take for a joke, but it was a nice try nonetheless.
It's actually pretty interesting to hear all of the different places they've spliced footage together from to come up with it. It's a lot of concept art and still from Star Wars and Final Fantasy, but it's all fake.
I like this picture of a perfectly undamaged orb of glass. Just the foreshadowing of it being shattered into slivers by a Wii remote gets me all tingly.
"Playing tennis on the Wii requires a lot of space. Clearly I didn't have enough space for playing tennis. The Wii remote control is fine, no scratch at all.
My friend just lost a game of tennis to his wife. Then he played against the computerplayer - and didn't wanted to lose against it.
My lamp came in the way. Now it looks like a cheap version of the deathstar.." -Claus
I don't want to be too critical of Claus's storytelling abilities, but I could have used more information on how his friends fingers are doing. Surely you can't put your fist through that ball and think you can get away from it without a scratch.
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