WiiMote News

A couple of new games will be showcasing the Wiimote.

• Nintendo Dates Wii Zapper, Confirms Link's Crossbow
• More Motion-Sensitive Lightsabers Coming to Wii

The Lightsabers are coming! The Lightsabers are coming!!!

Quick Update: Mario Kart Wii

More information on the upcoming release of Mario Kart Wii. Yay!!!

Classic tracks! The return of hopping! Online racing! The definitive Nintendo racer is back

Not available until January 2008. Boo!!!

Mii on a T-Shirt

As I have mentioned before I love my Wii. So last night an idea struck me, wouldn't it be great to be able to put an image of your Mii on a T-shirt? I even thought that there may be a market for this shirt.

The engineer in me immediately started to work on how it would be possible. First I would need to find a way to download the Mii from the Wii which can be accomplished by using the Wiimote Data Management Library. Then I would need to reverse engineer the structure of the Mii data which has already been done. Figure out a way to export this data as a JPEG file which is where the on-line Mii Editor would come in handy. Finally, upload the image to CafePress to order a shirt.

Now as I said I was doing this all late at night so when I told my wife the idea this morning she thought it was great but asked, "Has anyone else done it before?" To which a quick Google search turned up offerings from Mr. Cloud and MiiWare. Great, now my life is a plot point from the movie Knocked Up which Kate and I both thought was hilarious by the way.

So the moral of this story boys and girls is next time you think you have a great idea for an internet business focus less on the how and more on the should.

Wii News Roundup

A whole bunch of news coming out of E3. The bit that has me most excited is Mario Kart Wii!

• Nintendo packing Wii Wheel with Mario Kart for Wii


• Nintendo Announces Wii Fit: Step Pad To Get Healthy


• Nintendo Reveals Wii Zapper

I love the Wii

I really love my Wii. It breaks video games out of the rut they have been in for many years. With the new controllers they've opened up so many possibilities for game play. No longer are we forced to endure another rehash in the first person shooter or real time strategy genres.

Anyone can play the Wii, in fact my 2 1/2 year old daughter routinely does better than me at Wii Sports Bowling, but now EA Sports is taking it a step further by introducing Family Plan Style in their upcoming Wii releases.

So far Madden NFL 08, NBA Live 08 and FIFA Soccer 08 have been announced. I can't wait for them to announce an NHL 08.