Nintendo DS Wireless in Freefall

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Julio Franco

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On a sunny California day, Lou Myers and three others became the first people ever to play a Super Mario game while plummeting from the sky at terminal velocity.

The four sky divers, each clutching a wireless Nintendo DS handheld gaming device, were part of an experiment this month to discover the outer limits of the wireless capabilities of the DS and its highly touted new competitor, the Sony PSP.

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Yet, notwithstanding the risks, the four sky divers proved that an ad hoc network set up using the wireless functions of a Nintendo DS works perfectly at distances of nearly 400 feet while falling 120 miles an hour.

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,67316,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
 
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