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Posted: Oct 9th 2006 8:58AM (Unverified) said

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I got to admit, I'm bit cheap guy. Third-party wiimotes would be the greatest thing for me, since the wiimote+nunchuk are pretty expensive.

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 9:16AM (Unverified) said

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Controller technology:
NES, SNES, Genesis - wires, switches

N64, PS1/2, Gamecube, Xbox - wires, switches, motors, small chips (so you can have fewer wires than buttons and analog signals

Wavebird, Xbox 360 - Simple proprietary wireless chip, antenna, etc...

PS3 - bluetooth module, accelerometers, etc...

Wiimote - bluetooth module, accelerometers, camera, processor to find IR pattern in image and deduce pointer coordinates, speaker, motors, and memory.

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Yes, I realize Risse was just saying it was expensive, not that it cost more than it was worth, but I thought I'd point out the reason the Wiimote tech is worth it, and worth protecting.

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 9:39AM (Unverified) said

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I don't understand how those work and how they will make it safer?

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 10:58AM (Unverified) said

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It's like a knife cover, its a sorta thick, gel like cover that will absorb (if any) of that hit towards someone.. but that asuming those are gel like..

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 11:17AM Dracula Jones said

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What's going on on the shelf below the gloves? The round things and what looks like those little plastic compartment cases that old people put their pills in... any idea what those are?

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 11:28AM DigTheDoug said

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#5:

Those look like disc cases, and in the same package above them is what looks like a stand to hold/stand-up 4 Wiimotes and something else.

Posted: Oct 14th 2006 1:42PM (Unverified) said

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This was on Engadget yesterday or two days ago. The other stuff is travelling carrying cases for the console i guess, and dog tags and lapel pins. I don't really get the dog tags and lapel pins part, but yeah.

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 12:02PM vidguy said

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The gloves are also useful for:

Keeping the remote clean from dirt, scratches, fingerprints, etc

Making it easier to grip than smooth plastic

Distinguishing "your" remote from another (in absence of colored remotes at launch)

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 12:06PM (Unverified) said

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nerf nerf
not for use with crotch

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 12:34PM (Unverified) said

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I like it, it makes a lot of sense.

You put a glove on for protection so you don't get any nasty diseases from other people playing with your wii.

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 1:49PM (Unverified) said

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Cool, but white is so sexy, also I wouldn't pay much for stuff like this and I don't wanna buy any third party controllers, they're usually worse and they often look worse too... =(

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 3:59PM (Unverified) said

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It looks more like it's a cover to protect the hardware not someones head - although I can understand that's what the nerfmote is for.

Posted: Oct 9th 2006 4:18PM (Unverified) said

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I hate buying third party controllers....the only thing I ever buy third party are cases to put the system in. Like my GCN and DS are both in Intec cases. For everything else, I only trust the original.

Posted: Oct 10th 2006 12:33PM (Unverified) said

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The "old people pill things" look a stand for your wiimotes. Picture them standing up four in a row in those four "pill cases."

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