Wii-mote hacks make inexpensive input devices
By ahoodedfigure 9 Comments
Maybe you all have heard of this already. I just found out about this through TED. The Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, is a sponsored, rapid fire presentation of the cutting edge of human thought, including everything from the guy that debuted the touchscreen application people now have on their I-phones that lets you scale in and out, to biomedical advances, socio-economic theory, and a bunch of other fields all presented in an accessible way that a non-specialist like me can understand.
While looking through the list of the videos I hadn't seen yet, I cam across this:
F'ing neat, non? I wonder if the guys who made the Wii remote are kicking themselves, wondering why they didn't think of these applications. As the presenter Johnny Lee says, people are already using this free software + the Wii + some other, easily accessible equipment, to make things that usually cost a lot more.
Here's Johnny Chung Lee's projects page:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/