Johhny is one talented geek…!

January 12, 2008 – 12:21

Now if there is one thing I can appreciate in a fellow human being, it is geekiness. This guy is very talented and has used his Nintendo Wii controller for some nifty and very useful consumer tech applications. Head over to his site and watch the awesome videos of what he did.

As of September 2007, Nintendo has sold over 13 million Wii game consoles. This significantly exceeds the number of Tablet PCs in use today according to even the most generous estimates of Tablet PC sales. This makes the Wii Remote one of the most common computer input devices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated. It contains a 1024×768 infrared camera with built-in hardware blob tracking of up to 4 points at 100Hz. This significantly out performs any PC “webcam” available today. It also contains a +/-3g 8-bit 3-axis accelerometer also operating at 100Hz and an expandsion port for even more capability. These projects are an effort to explore and demonstrate applications that the millions of Wii Remotes in world readily support.

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