It’s a rule: any offbeat project must have a Mario component in its proof-of-concept if it is in any way possible, whether it’s a Roomba that responds to MIDI instructions, or making fun of wire-fu.

Speaking of, Wired reports on this real-time wire-fu adventure based on Super Mario Bros.. Sure, grad students from a smart school may have been Mariofying virtual reality years ago with real science stuff, but that doesn’t diminish the efforts taken by NYUers to take on real reality with nothing but some scaffolding, bungee cords, and a discount card for Jo-Ann’s Fabric Shop. I mean, who are you to dismiss the advanced post-graduate nature of 1980s Japanese game show technology?

Read - Strap Up and Jump Like Mario [Wired News]

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