You knew it had to happen. They actually intend to make us do serious exercise with this Wii-Fit thing. A patent-pending peripheral called “riiflex” will turn your Wiimotes into dumbells thanks to some 2lb and 5lb cases. The design is pretty interesting. These even feature a trigger port for access to all the Wiimote’s buttons.
They are available for preorder deposit. While the price is still undecided, they estimate that these weights will cost you around $30 per unit. I’m sure they are already planning a way to include the nunchuk. One question. Do serious weight-lifting meatheads even use the Wii?
Anyhow, at $30 per unit, I’ll just tie something real heavy around my hands.
[Gizmodo]
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exercise, fitness, Nintendo, Riiflex, weight, Weights, Wii Fit
Hmmmm I hope we dont start to hear now about broken LCD TVs…
somehow I think it’ll interfere with the proper use of the remote. Here’s a simpler, better, and cheaper idea that you can get NOW- it’s called wrist weights.