Bill Thompson looks at ways hackers are opening up the Wii for uses never intended by Nintendo. The BBC News has the story.
The Wii remote is just a clever Bluetooth device at heart, so it has proved to be an easy target.
It can already be used to control a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, and the delightfully named 'DarwiinRemote' team lets your Wiimote act as remote control for Macintosh computers - the name is a pun on Darwin, one of the main components of Mac OS X.
