Nintendo patent posits Wiimote touchpad extension, looks like plumbing schematic

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/11/peri.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/07/nintendo-patent-posits-wiimote-touchpad-extension-looks-like-pl/)This patent from Nintendo envisions how it could bring a touch interface to its Wiimotes (http://www.engadget.com/tag/wiimote) through an (admittedly unwieldy-looking) controller extension. While the Wii U (http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/07/the-wiiu-nintendos-next-console/) already looks set to bring touchscreen fun to all things big-screened and Nintendo-themed, this concept offers up touch functionality to existing Wiis through an infrared LED that picks up the location of your finger and transmits it periscope-style to the IR sensor on the Wiimote. If the screen remains untouched, the controller acts as normal -- or as normal as it can with that extra hardware heft.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/07/nintendo-patent-posits-wiimote-touchpad-extension-looks-like-pl/