That Isn't About The Wii
Acrobots is one of the coolest things of its kind I’ve seen.
It means something to me that the “world” is finding ways of crafting simplicity instead of layering on another Baroque excess to an already-complex base.
We see it in the iPod with its multi-purpose wheel, and we definitely see it in the sacrifice of buttons to the cause of motion-sensing in the Wii. I’m even seeing it in furniture.
I think we have proven to ourselves that we are quite good at making bells and whistles. Perhaps the triumph of the future is to say, “Look what I have done with the surface and shine of this bell.”