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Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!

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Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
August, 2007

Pros

Fun games that train your brain
Excellent character recognition when writing
Uses portrait orientation of the DS

Cons

Strict. Can only record your stats once per day.
Voice recognition can be spotty when doing paper, rock, scissors
Can be frustrating when character recognition fails and records a wrong answer when it was actually correct

Wii Play

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Wii Play
February, 2007

$50.00

Pros

Comes bundled with a Wii-mote
Improves wiimote skills
Laser hockey is amazingly fun

Cons

Lacking in depth (get bored easily)
Doesn't keep stats
Some games (find Mii) can be frustrating

Trauma Center Second Opinion

80

Trauma Center Second Opinion
November, 2006

$50.00

Pros

Good use of Wiimote & Nunchuck
Ability to replay any scenario at any time

Cons

Graphics look VERY dated, even for the Wii

New Super Mario Bros.

New Super Mario Bros.
May, 2006

$30.00

Super Mario Galaxy

80

Super Mario Galaxy
November, 2007

$50.00

Pros

Engrossing and fantastic visuals
Vast gameplay environment with many areas to explore
Excellent audio - FX and music

Cons

Graphics would benefit from HD support
Crazy levels makes for difficult camera perspectives
Trite gameplay gimmicks, especially with bosses

Wii Fit

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Wii Fit
May, 2008

$90.00

Pros

Innovative pressure sensitive gamepad
Tracks your fitness progress with "Wii Fitness Age"
Integrates Mii characters into gameplay

Cons

Uses BMI to determine fitness age but doesn't account for different body structures and muscle mass
You can't input other biometric data that you've attained on your own (% body fat for example)
Can only track four people's fitness ages.

Wii Sports

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Wii Sports
November, 2006

$21.89

Pros

Good use of the Wiimote (different for each sport)
Comes free with the purchase of a Nintendo Wii.
Can upload your own Mii characters made on the Wii console to play sports with.

Cons

No online play
The graphics are sub-par for the Wii
The controls are sometimes unresponsive.

Windows Media Player

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Windows Media Player

Pros

Mini-player
comes bundled with Windows
has all the bells and whistles you would expect

Cons

Will not play licensed media without internet connection or licence
Awful library management functions
Player tends to freeze, pause, etc with lots of codecs on the machine

Wikipedia

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Wikipedia
January, 2001

Pros

Supported by a huge, passionate community of Wikipedians
Open-content, open-source
Updated every second of the day

Cons

Sometimes the subject of controversies over the accuracy of its content
Phony experts can easily add bad information (confidence, supporting detail)
Easily Edited

Nintendo DS Lite

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Nintendo DS Lite
June, 2006

$130.00

Pros

Redesigned to be lighter, sleeker, and easier to use
Incredible battery life
Can play GameBoy Advance games

Cons

Purchase of extra cart required for web browsing
Cannot play Gameboy and Gameboy Color games
Friend code system is cumbersome.

Motorola RAZR2

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Motorola RAZR2
July, 2007

Pros

Beautiful screens; extremely large outside screen
High-quality finish
Built more solidly than the first Razr (higher quality materials)

Cons

Every touch leaves fingerprints and smudges (due to high-shine paint)
Easy to hit wrong button (e.g. press 1, when trying to press 4)
Keypad is too reflective, making it hard to read in bright light.

Motorola Q

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$300.00

Pros

World's thinnest QWERTY phone at launch
Fairly rugged. Scratch tolerant screen.

Cons

Limited battery life
Key pad hard to type on

Nintendo Gamecube

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Nintendo Gamecube
November, 2001

$99.00

Pros

Very short loading times
Top notch Nintendo games
Tons of multiplayer games

Cons

No longer supported by Nintendo
Only two online games
Some versions have unreliable optics and will die after several months.

Miro

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Miro
July, 2007

Pros

Large selection of free channels.
Lots of HD content.
Possible to get recommendations based on ratings of other shows.

Cons

Video quality is not always high.
To rate a channel you have to find it in the guide rather than selecting it in the subscribed channel list.

Apple iTunes (v8 and v9)

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Apple iTunes (v8 and v9)
January, 2001

Pros

Easy-to-use synching with iPod device
Clean, slick, easy to use interface.
Available for both Mac and Windows

Cons

Installs many services and bloatware
Slows down Windows
High startup time on Windows

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