Speakeasy: I Got the Magic Stick
One controller is shaped like a sleek television remote (sometimes called the Wii-mote); the other plugs into the remote with a short wire, creating a vague resemblance to the two-handled martial-arts weapon it is named for, the nunchuk.
And beneath the controllers’ white plastic shells are an array of time-tested digital technologies working together in new ways.
- At the Heart of the Wii, Micron-Size Machines by Michel Marriott. The New York Times, 12.21.06
Now if only stores actually had wii-motes and nunchuks in stock...
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What's hilarious to me is the term "time-tested digital technologies." I took an electronics device manufacturing class in college, and one of the dark truths of the industry is that ever since the mid 80s, it's been shown that anything electronic is cheaper to replace than it is to repair. As an added bonus, companies can make billions more when people keeping coming back to buy replacements for their busted cd players.
That, coupled with the fact that all the solder used to attach components to the circuit board have sizeable amounts of lead in them, and tons of junked circuit boards are in the world's landfills.
Hooray, technology!