Asus Launches Wii-like Eee Stick PC Controller
Going by information reported by Register Hardware, the controller includes an "Activation stick" with seven buttons, paired with a "Navigation stick" equipped with an analog stick. Both components appear to incorporate additional buttons on the front ends of the units, much like the Z and C buttons on the Wii Nunchuck controller.
The device is said to support 3D motion, pointing and tilt sensing. Both components of the Eee Stick broadcast a 2.4GHz RF signal to a USB dongle connected to a PC, and do not required to be tethered to one another. The peripheral is powered by a total of four AA batteries, two in each stick.
The Eee Stick is slated to arrive alongside future iterations of Asus' Eee PC and Eee Box computer hardware, packed with a series of titles designed to make use of the controller. No release date was immediately available.
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Oh, I thought you could do that already with the Wii-Mote, just get a blu-tooth adapter for 10 bucks and plug it into the USB - then it detects the wii-mote (after a bunch of driver installations and trying to sync the remote).