This thing is rather ridiculous, especially the one for the Kinect, as it’s really just a plastic bowling ball with a wrist strap attached. At least the Wii version has controls built in, and the one for the PlayStation Move holds onto the controller.

Here’s a quick video clip I nabbed of the Kinect version in action.

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Check out the incredible bowling skills of this CTA Digital employee as she knocks down a whopping one pin. At least she didn’t throw it through the screen.

Frankly, I don’t really get accessories like this. You can really only use them for a single game, and with the Kinect, you could just use an actual bowling ball if you wanted to be accurate. Just remember not to release it from your hand.

All three of the major current-gen consoles are represented in baked-good form, including a pair of PS3 DualShocks, a duo of Wii-motes, and just a single Xbox 360 controller. Why just one? Maybe it took twice as much cookie dough to make – they are rather bulky, aren’t they?

If you’re looking for more fun ideas for geeky holiday cookies to bake over the holidays, head on over to geeksugar, and Not So Humble Pie for a recipe for these particular cookies as well as a funny Venn Diagram.

Now, Nintendo has offered up some interesting statistics on the Wii and how many Wii Remote controls it has sold. In the US alone Nintendo has moved 65.3 million Wii Remotes since the launch of the system. That works out to about 46,000 Wii Remotes sold each day.

Nintendo says of that 65.3M number, 30.41 million were sold with the Wii console and 12.92 million remotes were sold with the Wii Play bundle. There were 18.56 million white remotes sold separately and 2.44 million black remotes sold alone. The pink and blue remotes were almost dead even with 467,500 pink sold and 465,200 blue remotes sold.

It’s an official LEGO product and has all the features you expect form a Wii Remote like a speaker, rumble effects, accelerometers, and larger buttons for control. The controller ships with two battery doors including a standard door works with most charging docks.

The second battery door has a LEGO brick on it and allows the user to use their own LEGO bricks to build their very own holder for the controller. The LEGO Play and Build Remote for Wii also ships with 31 colorful mini LEGO tiles and a LEGO tile separator. You can pre-order the thing exclusively at Toys R Us for $39.99(USD) with an expected ship date of October 16.

This will be a perfect addition to the upcoming Wii game Doctor Who: Return to Earth that will be released this winter – or is it? Honestly, all these novelty game controllers are a bit much for me. The standard controller functions well enough, so the only I would think about getting this is if I need an extra one.

There will also be a stylus for the Nintendo DS for Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth game that will come out this fall. Bleh.

[Official Nintendo Magazine via The Daily What via DVice]

Now, thanks to the ingenuity of one Robert Oschler, you’ll soon be able to control the YouTube Leanback experience from the comfort of your easy chair. Robert has managed to put together an application which allows him to use his Wii-mote control and Bluetooth on your PC to allow him to control Leanback wirelessly. Here’s a short video clip showing off his WiiLeanback app in action…

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The cool thing is that Robert plans on releasing WiiLeanback as a downloadable app in “a week or two”, so you’ll be able to do this for yourself without much more than a few keystrokes – which I’m guessing is something you’ll really like, assuming you’re too lazy to get up from the couch to flip to the next video.

If I could get her playing real golf that good, I could be like Tiger’s dad and stop working. The only issue she has with Wii Golf is that her little hands can’t quire press the button down enough to get up to the ball and stay there. Each time her turn comes around her little character dances back and forth from in front of the ball to beside the ball until she finally whacks it straighter than I can.

At E3, Power A pulled the wraps off some new controllers for the Wii that are sized for users with small hands, and still work with the Wii MotionPlus add-on. The controller is called the MiniRemote and MiniChuck and they claim to be 35% smaller than the normal Wii controllers are. I wonder if I got them if my daughter will give me a 35% harder butt kicking next time we play.

[via Kotaku]

In order to pull it off yourself, you’ll need to jailbreak your iPad, then install the latest version snes4iphone. The latest version (7.0) supports Wii-mote control via Bluetooth, so just pair it with your Wii-mote, and you should be all set.

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Assuming you have a stand for your iPad, it’s just like having a portable Super Nintendo. Now all they have to do is figure out a way to emulate the Wii itself on the iPad… It’s probably powerful enough.

[via toucharcade via TUAW]

While pricing will remain at $199.99 (USD) for the Wii, each console will now include Wii Sports Resort and a Wii MotionPlus accessory in every box. That’s in addition to the already included Wii-mote, Nunchuk and Wii Sports in every package. If I’m doing my math right, that’s about a $40 bucks worth of extra schwag with every system. Not too shabby, if you ask me.

The bundle for both the original white Wii will also start showing up in stores on May 9th. Looks like now is a great time to get your hands on a Wii (pun intended) if you don’t have one already, are looking to pick up a gift, or if you just want all of the equipment in your rack to be black.

This Japanese modder took two old Famicom controllers (that’s NES to you and I), and tore them apart. Once inside, he managed to cram the guts of his recently disemboweled Wii controller. Et voilà! The Wii Famirimokon! (Don’t bother trying to pronounce that.)

Sure, it’s not nearly as svelte from the side as it looks from the top, but whaddya want for a hack-job? Damned 3-dimensional space!

In keeping with the all-Nintendo spirit of the build, he also ended up having to use parts from a Game Boy Advance to connect parts of the controller. Why? Why the heck not. I’m just disappointed that he didn’t figure out a use for parts from a Virtual Boy or 3DS in there.

[via Tiny Cartridge via Go Nintendo]

This wii-mote is the work of Jack, and he really loves Ghostbusters. After having playing with his Ghostbusters video game, he set himself the task of transforming his wii-mote into a particle thrower.

The particle thrower connects to a matching proton pack! Now that’s pretty cool! For a minute there, I wasn’t sure if it was connected to something. Obviously it is!

Here’s how Jack describes his mod:

“The cyclotron features four blue LEDs allowing you to know which player is selected or active and the Blue Power Cell actually shows you how much power the pack has. The Thrower has been carefully designed in regards to ergonomics and function. The front of the wand has an area in which you can place the Wii-mote and the back handle is where the Nunchuck is placed. Since the Wii-mote has in internal speaker in it’s ABS housing, when playing the game the pack makes all the iconic Ghostbusters SFX.”

[Ghostbusters Fans via Joystiq via DVice]

It’s also supposed to make gameplay more comfortable for your fingers, but you’ll have to get one to find out if that’s the case. In addition to transforming the D-Pad, the Wii Magic Stick covers the “A”, “1″ and “2″ buttons with slightly larger, easier to press buttons that protrude from the face of your controller. You just snap the Magic Stick onto the front of your Wii-mote and you’re all set.

A pair of Wii Magic Sticks will set you back just $7 (USD) over at Brando. Of course if you want some real joysticks for your Wii, I’d suggest you hold off and wait for the new Wii Classic Controller Pro.

With all of that throwing and flailing your arms around, it’s certain that at some point in time your Wii-mote will break. That’s why Nyko is offering their Wand+, a Wii-mote replacement which sells for about $40 (USD). The Wand + features a rubberized trigger, more ergonomic D-pad, and larger 1/2 buttons than a stock Wii-mote – and the button are square instead of round. It comes in white, black, blue, purple and pink if color is important to you.

The Type Pad is an attachment, which will be useful for those of you who browse their web or write lots of text messages via their Wiis. It’s a QWERTY keypad which works well, but looks funky.

It works with the Wii-mote or the Wand+. An interesting side note: it doesn’t need any extra batteries, and will feed off your Wii-mote’s juice.

The Charge Base Quad will let you charge four controllers at the same time, either Wand+ or Wii-motes. Direct contact isn’t needed to start charging, so you won’t have to remove your Wii-mote out of its gel casing. It comes with an extra USB port to charge whatever you want. It will sell for $50.

Finally, there’s the  Perfect Shot light gun for your Wii. Not much to say about that, except that it’s great for killing things. It’s $15 bucks.

[via CrunchGear]

Actually, he kind of swallows it and the toy comes with the game. The game uses the stuffed animal as the game’s controller. The game is called Wiiwaa and the Wii-mote enables the toy to become motion-sensitive. By shaking and bouncing the puppet around, kids can replicate those same movements in the digital world of the game.

This is just the start. It can also be thrown around and a whole bunch of other movements.

It sounds like an interesting new way of using the Wii. Parents and kids everywhere will once again be fighting over Wii-motes! Check out the full trailer below to see Wiiwaa in action:

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[via Designboom]

The BLAZE PS3 Motion Freedom 3D controller can detect your movements and send them to the PS3 for use in games. The controller has a D-pad, analog stick, and all of the other buttons you’d find on a DualShock 3 control.

Now there’s no word on what games the Motion Freedom will support, but BLAZE makes mention of Tiger Woods PGA Golf and Sega Tennis in their announcement. No word on a release date or price either – so for now, you’ll just have to be satisfied reading the press release.

[via TFTS]

Wii fan? Don’t want to wear a pair of PS2 Dual Shocks on your wrist? That’s okay because they’ve also got these little Wii-mote controller cufflinks too.

And if you’re looking for something a little more cross-platform friendly, check out the Guitar Hero cufflinks.

My fingers hurt just thinking about how tiny those frets and strum bar are. Try playing Through The Fire And Flames on Expert one of these.

The sterling silver Dual Shock and Wii-mote links will set you back a pricey $150 (USD), while the silver plate GH guitars will run you just $50 bucks. You can find all three designs over at Cufflinks.com.

Modder/possible de_dust 2 regular fordelite_76 is responsible for this ill mod. The gun even has an “orange tip for all the safety minded people out there.” But that’s unnecessary. We all know that a real desert eagle has a steel finish. Plus it can shoot through walls and doors and crates. CTs can all have a few words with this cannon. Cannon.

Again it’s on eBay. Starting bid is $20 USD, Wii-mote not included. Also, fordelite_76 says that you cannot use this gun for games that require the Nunchuk controller. I’m waiting for an AWM/P mod. Deagle-deagle-rifle. Honestly I suck at CS; I only know that combo because I’ve been on the business end of it so many times. That and my own HE.

[via Oh Gizmo!]

These weensy Wii-motes (just 2.25″ tall) don’t just look cool. They each project a cartoon image from Mario Kart on your when you jam on the “1″ button.

In addition to Mario, there are versions with Luigi, Wario, Princess Peach, Yoshi and Baby Mario. If you collect all six, you could project an illuminated Mario Kart puppet show on your wall. How cool would that be?

These unique collectibles are officially licensed by Nintendo, and available in limited quantities over at ThinkGeek for just $5.99 each.

The Wii Remocon storage accessory from Hori Japan couldn’t be simpler. This soft-sided Wii-mote cozy gives you a handy place to keep your Wii controller.

Each one is roomy enough for a Wii-mote and Nunchuk controller pair. A handy snap on the front of each one lets you conjoin multiples to store more than one controller.

They’re available in black, aqua and white nylon and emblazoned with the officially licensed Wii logo. You can find all three over at Play-Asia for $7.99 a piece.

Currently just a concept design by Joe D!, his mod envisions a layer of woodgrain veneer (probably just vinyl decals) for all of his Wii controllers. From the Wii-Mote to the Nunchuk to the Classic Controller and even they Nyko Perfect Shot – they all get wood. Not only that, the controllers get some bright white backlit buttons and a nice black paint job to bring out the woody goodness.

It only leaves me wondering what sort of look he has planned for the Wii itself. No word on if or when Joe will bring his concept to fruition, but I’ll be sure to post photos of the real deal if and when he does.