Wii CPR Training in the Works
Students and faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have earned a $50,000 grant from the American Heart Association to develop a CPR training program utilizing the Wii-mote. The program uses the accelerometers in the controller to provide real-time position tracking and feedback for CPR trainees.
We've been working hard behind the scenes on the CrunchPad since our last update in April, and have just about nailed down the final design for the device. We're showing the conceptual drawings here today. In another few weeks we'll have the first working prototypes in our office.
This launch prototype is another significant step forward from the last prototype. The screen is now flush with the case and we've decreased the overall thickness to about 18 mm. The case will be aluminum, which is more expensive than plastic but is sturdier and lets us shave a little more off the overall thickness of the device.
I believe the device now actually looks better than the original concept design we published last summer. Compare the images below to the first prototype and you can see how far we've come. If you're interested, here's Prototype B. Pictures of Prototype C, which is the device we're actually demo'ing to people now, are here
A lot has happened behind the scenes, too. Our partner Fusion Garage
The next time we talk about the CrunchPad publicly will be at a special press and user event in July in Silicon Valley. If you'd like to be emailed when new news comes out, send an email to crunchpad@techcrunch.com and we'll put you on the list.
Here is the near-final industrial design for the CrunchPad:
The exploit works by using a malformed banner to crash the Wii and run code to load the boot.dol placed in the root of the SD card.
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