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Wall Street Journal takes on Wiimote hacking

The Wall Street Journal has a brief piece -- and an even briefer video accompaniment -- covering Wiimote hacking of all things. Notable: they're calling it the "Wii-mote," not Wii Remote. Even more notable: the article's front page status! The Wii c...

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Today's hottest game video: World of Wiimote

Today's most-watched YouTube game video shows more Wiimote-as-PC-input-device goodness; the simple hack drives World of Warcraft with the Bluetooth Wiimote-and-Nunchuk combination. Yes, by visiting wiili.org, you, too can become an uber-dork. (The co...

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Today's hottest game video: Wiimote on Windows

Today's most-watched YouTube game video shows a Wiimote controlling a Windows PC mouse pointer. (Go here if you're looking for that other video.) The Bluetooth connection uses the freely available GlovePIE to make sense of the movements; download the...

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Wiimote helps man rock out

While some musicians might snobbily mock those who spastically flail around on Guitar Hero's plastic controller ("Like, lol, why not just learn to play a real guitar?" is something we read far too often), others embrace our hobby, and use elements...

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Play R.C. Pro-Am with Wiimote, real-life style

Just another device hacked for Wii-control, yes, but this one's a radio-controlled car! An Austrian fellow claims to have modded his toy car to receive tilt inputs from a Wiimote, making for some novel R.C. Pro-Am throwback action. We're not convi...

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Engineer makes cat companion out of robot using Kinect and Wiimotes

Until the robots rise up and destroy us all, software engineer Taylor Veltrop is fine with using our future usurpers as feline babysitters. Veltrop has hacked together a Kinect, two Wiimotes, head-mounted display, treadmill and a Nao robot to...

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Wiimote genius Johnny Chung Lee on Project Natal team

Here's an interesting piece of E3 news we missed due to being at E3. Johnny Chung Lee, the human-computer interaction Ph.D. who came to prominence for his brilliant Wiimote interface hacks, announced on his blog that he's part of the team making Micr...

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Today's most entrancing video: Sixaxis remote hack

The fine folks at pabr.org have engineered a Sixaxis controller into a remote for other devices, much like the frenzy of Wiimote hacking. The demonstration shows the controller tilting and rotating a plane, and it earns our nod as the video of the da...

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Wii gets TV guide channel, Wiimote becomes universal in Japan

Wii's 'Terebi no Tomo' Channel has launched in Japan, free for download from the Shop Channel. Better understood as 'TV Friend' Channel, the service, which was announced last November, provides users with an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) that updat...

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Kinect Hacks: 'holographic' video chat

Seek sanctuary within the virtual setting of this latest Kinect hack, which uses the tech to create a real-time "holographic" person set in a virtual office space. Created by Oliver Kreylos of UC Davis, the hack uses two Kinect cameras to create the...

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Dial 868-HACK on Steam, steal data

Independent developer Michael Brough launched a PC and Mac version of his strategy game 868-HACK on Steam this week. The brightly-colored roguelike previously arrived on iOS in August 2013. In it, players "steal precious data while the world sleep...

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Twilight Hack prevention already thwarted

Nintendo's anti-Twilight Hack hack (also known as Wii menu update 3.3) has already been, erm, hacked. Coders at the HackMii blog have figured out the code used to essentially block the homebrew community and found a way past it. While the fix hasn't...

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Wii Power Gloves? Nope.

What's more useless: plastic shove-on attachments or boxing gloves with Wiimote pockets? We suppose those attachments are, but these 'un-official' Wii boxing gloves rank among the lamest of 3rd-party peripherals. Maybe if you have a tendency to fling...

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The WiiBot will totally cut you

Get ready to welcome our new WiiBot overlords, because robot plus sword always calculates out as world domination. Also, this latest creative use of the Wiimote kinda makes all the other hacks look a little, well, lame. "Check this out! I can play W...

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