I heard about the Wii Fit when my friend and colleague who writes for Ars Technica wrote about the device at last year's E3. It's basically a new peripheral and "game" for the Wii that helps you work out, tracks your progress, and has a bunch of other fun balance games, watch this video: We talked about the Fit today at work and I think we've resolved to get one, but I think that I'd like to get one for home too. I've heard mumblings about it being release in either January or February, but there's nothing definitive yet.
What you see above is the title screen for a flash game called Cursor*10. Made by Yoshio Ishii, you click on the stairs to take you to the next level. In the first few levels you can easily find the set of stairs, but in successive levels it gets hard and takes more time to reveal the icon. Here's where the cool part comes in. You have ten "cursors" or lives and you can cooperate with yourself to go higher. Whatsa?? When you play your second, third, et cetera cursors, you see all of the previous attempts ghosted against your ...