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11.22.09

Nintendo Patent Reveals Horseback Saddle Controller For the Wii

Wii enthusiasts could enjoy even more embarrassing flailing if this patented saddle-controller ever comes to fruition.

By Molika Ashford Posted 08.11.2009 at 12:45 pm 4 Comments

You can already swing a metaphorical tennis racket, do the virtual hula or drive a virtual steering wheel. So what could possibly be next for the Wii?

Why, this inflatable horseback riding saddle controller, of course. Seriously—-a saddle. To ride in your living room.

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Rethinking the Remote

A new kind of remote control scraps the buttons in favor of motion-sensitive navigation

By Michael Myser Posted 02.13.2007 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

Control Freak: The Loop lets you change channels and settings with a wave and a click. Hillcrest Labs

Three hundred channels and a DVR full of recorded shows, and you´re still sifting through it all with a controller straight out of the ´80s. That´s why Hillcrest Labs designed the Loop, a remote with nary a number on it. Instead, a button brings up an onscreen guide, which you navigate with a scroll wheel. To select what you want to do-browse recordings, change settings-just wave the remote around to move an onscreen cursor through a series of intuitive, icon-driven menus.

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READ MORE ABOUT > intuitive icon, loop, loop size, remote, scroll wheel, seat cushions, target