Control your canoe with a Wiimote

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11 August 2008 19:36 GMT / By Verity Burns

If you love the great outdoors, but just don't really like the effort that comes with most of it, then some crazy developers have put together a device that means you could enjoy canoeing, without all that pesky paddling.

Take a look at the video and you'll see that some people with obviously too much time on their hands have modified canoes with small electric motors that are controllable by a Wiimote.

It is only a steering mechanism - at the moment anyway - so things like acceleration are not controlled by the Wiimote, just left and right. What we want to know is, what happens when the batteries run out. Better take a couple of paddles just in case...
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Gaming, Nintendo Wii, Controllers, Nintendo, PSP, PS2, Nintendo DS, Gaming industry, Sony, Microsoft, Racing games

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