14 DAY TRIAL // The Nintendo Wii is surely one of the best selling consoles ever created, even threatening to surpass the huge sales figures of Sony's PS2 and various developers are still searching for a way to take full advantage of its motion sensing capacity. One of them is the guy you can see in the video below, who is controlling the on-screen pointer's movement with the aid of his fingertips. This control system resembles the one implemented by Nintendo, but this time the Wiimote is replaced by human fingers.
As you can see in the video, the man placed the Wiimote close to an infrared emitter and then used a couple of reflective pads sticked to his fingers in order to control the pointer's movement. This is not a major hack, but still, it's a breakthrough that rids us of that somewhat dangerous Wiimote, which can cause a black eye if you're not holding it tight. While it didn't bother me that the inventor was using an old-school TV for the experiment, I was disappointed to find out that, for now, this control system only allows you to move around the screen, without the ability of selecting tasks or various options.
Of course, Nintendo's gaming device has gone a long way, surpassing its rivals, but there's still a lot of stuff to implement and work with in order to create the perfect gaming device. That's probably the reason why Nintendo seems to be allowing the third party developers more freedom, maybe following Apple's example in the case of the iPhone. The future of gaming devices is surely an ultra-portable one, as we're starting to lose controllers, heavy and huge gaming devices and large cables replacing them with consoles like the PSP, DS or Nintendo Wii. Let me know when Sony finally decides to pull out a slimmer PS3, as that will be the moment when all consoles start losing weight.