A lot of gamers have HDTVs and the newest consoles, all of them hooked up at the same time. A good HDMI switch will enable you to keep those babies all hooked up at the same time and save you from having to unplug and replug cables when you want to play Gears of War or that one good game for the Playstation 3. What's more, there's a limit of two per customer, so yu can get one for both HD TVs that you own!*
* What do you mean you only own one HDTV?
Whilst on my Internet-enabled travels, I’ve come across some daily sites that have freebie software, including games, so I’m going to post them daily as well. Rather than just include links, I’m going to actually play the game and take screen shots so you can get some skinny on the game, no hype included. I’ll start doing this tomorrow.
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Doctor Julio Bonis woke up one morning with a sore elbow and shoulder and realized it was caused by playing Nintendo Wii sports all day the day before. He christened the term "Wii-itis" There are two things about this story that make me shudder:
The Wii is a fantastic console for many reasons. It gets people to play together, even people who never really played games before. It's cheap to purchase (if you can find one), and the games are always usually rock solid when coming from the first party provider (Nintendo). It's ignited an entire new segment of console gaming and has shown that gameplay most often beats pretty graphics.
However, there have been incidences of people suffering from overuse and sports-style injuries when playing this console. Partly that's because the console gets them off their couch potato butt to actually to some full-body movement, but it's also because people have no real concept of restraining themselves. I've seen people play this console and they tend to make incredibly huge and exaggerated movements to play when they don't need to; the sensors in the controllers are good enough to detect smaller gradients of motion and translate that just as well as grossly exaggerated, comical and dangerous movement. In my real life, I work in the field of somatic healthcare (read: massage therapist). I've worked on people with sport injuries. I've also worked on people with injuries caused from playing computer and console games. After a little education they don't suffer from the same problems any more.
Restraint, people, that's what I'm saying. If you're going to play the Wii, just like any new "sport", work up to it. You don't decide to start running a marathon and try to run 26 miles on your first day of training. You take it one mile at a time, and work up to your final goal. That's how it should be with playing the Wii. Take it slow to begin with, and you'll not only have a lot of fun, but you'll also not be screaming in pain and having to go to your doctor with Wii Sports Tennis Elbow.
That is, of course, assuming that he's not seeing his doctor for the same pain complaint.
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