Great User Interface Hacks

By thescian on March 26, 2009.

It's TED day at this blog.

Here are two videos I watched lately. Viva la User Interface revolution!
Johnny Lee's Wii Hacks at TED

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Johnny Lee: Wii Remote hacks

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Leveraging Existing Infrastructure

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