How Does the Wii-Remote Work?
You gyrate, smack and box with the Wii controller, but how does it work? You can thank the invention of inexpensive accelerometers:
The same thing that accurately measures how far I’ve run every day with my Nike + iPod sensor is the same thing that lets me hit naughty bunnies with shovels, plungers and hammers. You can thank NASA, the military and all those super secret government projects from fifty years ago. If only those scientists knew that I was using their technology to mutilate bunnies…
Via: How do motion-sensing video game controllers (like the Wii remote) work? (kottke.org)