Nintendo Patent Reveals Wii Mood Light

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makingmusic476 said:

Nintendogamer said:

IamAwsome said:

This seems interesting, but if they release this as a periphial, what will happen to the vitality sensor.

Maybe vitality sensor turned into this.

Maybe the light will change based on the readings of the sensor?

This is what I was thinking as well.  The color is there for accessibility - an easy way for the player to know what his heartrate actually is.  It's too hard to stop in the middle of the game and try to consciously figure out if your heartrate is a bit a high or too low for the current demands on screen.

Either way this peripheral actually seems like one of the cool ones considering all the other wacky patents that have rolled around.  I think there was a teddy bear patent at one point...