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Control the Wii with your fingertips

by Ross Miller on Nov 11th 2007 5:05PM

We love nothing more than walking down the street and pointing at random objects, figuring we are nurturing our inherent telekinetic powers and that one day the neighbor's dog will be lifted three meters into the air. In the interim, we need help practicing our finger-pointing accuracy.

Using the above video as tutorial, you can turn use a Nintendo Wii remote for making a finger-controlled interface à la the film Minority Report (and you thought Tom Cruise was using thetans to control the monitor ...). All you need is an array of infrared LEDs and some reflective tape. Remember, the Wii remote is a bluetooth device so you should be able to apply this method for any computer interface. Now to figure out how to simulate a mouse click ...

[Via Hackaday; thanks, Phillip]

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Tags: bluetooth, hacks, infrared, minority-report, nintendo, Wii

Reader Comments (36)

The coolest thing I've seen all day.

The Playstation Eye already does this and reflective tape is not needed nor are the array of infrared LEDs.

This man has invented the next Nintendo console

Probably the smartest comment I've heard all week. It's only a matter of time...

i second that. seriously tho... that guy can possibly be a billionaire any day now.

P-p-p-Powerglove!

Just a hell of a lot cooler now.

Is there a USB device that does this? If there's not I'd love there to be, I'd buy it. Someone be the business guy and make it, SUPPLY MY DEMAND.

Now, if only you could put that reflective tape on a glove of some sorts. Yes, and the name would have to be something relating to the power it gives you.. Hm, Power... Glove?

I'll take ten.

Oh, Rubang, at last you're becoming a crafty consumer! Just remember, the powerglove heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!

I don't know what's funnier: your comment or your name. Good show, sir!

just in case you anybody wants to see some amzing demo:
http://www.btleague.net/info.asp?id=212

Was that smart? No doubt. But I think the real proof of his intelligence here is that he somehow managed to escape Jim Henson’s studio – no easy task.

Ha ha... I see what you did there!

Or just get the Playstation Eye or whatever stupid name they call it, does the same thing without all the extra setup.

Except this might...y'know...actually work.

Because the eye toy REALLY does use infrared to track points...that would REALLY work

Wow...this guy needs to work for NASA or the DoD...or somewhere! Just have him making products I am going to be using in the future!

Yup, a guy who ghetto rigged some infrared LEDs and a wiimote stand with finger reflectors. NASA material alright.

Actually, knowing today's NASA, its probably above and beyond for them.

That is great! Nice tweaky project, and a very well-produced video explaining the hardware side of what he's doing. I was laughing when I saw that after soldering together an IR LED array, creating an interactive piece of software that allows pinch/stretch scaling, and editing a video explaining it, he still used a deck of cards (an OPEN deck of cards at that) to prop up the Wii remote.

And definitely cool how you shouted out www.hackaday.com - fun site, although I never make the time to do any of the projects!

Damn, that's cool. It'd be awesome if they could incorporate that into a console. Playing a shooter with your finger tips or a a 3D beat-'em-up by punching or even a DBZ game would all be tons of fun.

sylar

that is very awesome. You could play point and click games...literally.

Hmm, by this same token, one should be able to just prop their wiimote on their tv and use a couple of candles (or some other ir source) to point around with.

hmmm...

It would make for a cool ritual of some sort 8-]

HAHAHA! He said "doodoo"*!!

*-3:09 mark

went back to check, and then laughed my ass off. hahaha doodoo

jawesome

Or cultural dance tutorials.. (specifically, candle dances)

The reason people find this so much cooler is because it doesn't feel corporate - someones going to feel like they found it on their own (which non of us did).

That's pretty cool, but if he's so smart, then why the hell did he just put it up on youtube?

Youtube is a perfectly good way to teansmit unimportant information: fast, cheap, and reasonably low risk. You've a better idea for him to get the video out that has sufficient of the above factors?

I was just commenting that if this is a marketable idea, the last thing you'd want to do is put it out there for everyone to steal.

Not everything has to be motivated by money. There is such thing as believing in some greater value, like contributing/donating knowledge and science to the progress of mankind in general.

If it weren't for that kind of mentality, the internet wouldn't be what it is today.

please... spare me the junior college platitudes...

Sony already did this back in 2002 with the EyeToy. They're the ones who are pioneering this technology on a commercial level, not some Youtube video. And they just upgraded it with the Playstation Eye for PS3. The possibilities are huge, and the PS3 can handle things like powerful image processing, motion detection, and even face recognition, which the Wii couldn't even begin to do. Check out the research being done at Sony with the technology:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/11/14/video-of-new-research-conducted-with-playstation-eye/

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