LET MY BOARD AND ME BECOME AS ONE: THE WII BALANCE BOARD/GOOGLE EARTH MASHUP

With just a touch smoother scrolling (chalked up, surely, to the program itself), this could feel amazing: Germany’s Research Center for Artificial Intelligence has hacked together a Wii balance board with Google Earth to go surfing, as kottke says, “like the Silver Surfer.”

Or, if you please, the same interaction can be used in Second Life, or — as made the rounds earlier last year — World of Warcraft‘s Azeroth, but there’s nothing better than their tour-glide over Munich from 300 feet.

Wii Balance Board interactions [German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, via kottke]