An industrious google engineer figured out a way to program the Wii Balance Board (or, "Beam", as the engineer calls it) to control a truck rolling around Google Earth. And all he had to do was decode the Bluetooth thingy. Easy peasy!
Seems like there are real possibilities for a gaming application. I haven't seen any interesting uses of the board yet, but there has to be cool stuff like this in the pipeline. It'd be nice to have a new Pilotwings game. Even just a port of the Super Nintendo game with new Wii Balance Board controls would be terrific.
(via Venturebeat)
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