A Superhero For Your Wii Woes

Look! Up in the sky!
Holy WTF, Batman! Is that a new hero?

Apparently, it is. I feel silly coming up with an intro like that, but it fits today’s post about WiiMan, the costumed hero who’s goal in life is to help hapless Wii players with their games. Frustrated with your low score? Unable to beat the game’s first boss? Getting serious pwned in Brawl? WiiMan is here to save the day!

WiiMan the Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote. Having trouble playing Wii? WiiMan to the rescue. This GarageGeeks project combines Gaming, Technology and Useless Activity to the extreme. Rafael Mizrahi, an artificial vision and experience explorer at Feng-GUI and a GarageGeeks member along with Yael Hertzog built this custom costume that acts as a fully functional Nintendo WiiMote remote with buttons, bluetooth, accelerometers, and an IR cam.

The official site boasts a slideshow of the costume, along with the new hero’s exploits. And yes, the controller does function, so if you don’t mind asking help with your Wii title, feel free to give the builders a ring.

Source: Slashdot

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