You'd have to say the wire on the standard Wii sensor bar is of a reasonably generous length, but the fact it's wired at all irritates some, leaving wires trailing around if you don't have your TV and ...

When Nintendo unveiled its Wii console, it also showcased a prototype sensor bar - a device that system owners already know all too well. Early on, it was believed that the sensor bar not only ...

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After gamers uncovered the dark magic behind the Wii's sensor bar (it's an IR emitter), they came up with some wonderfully impractical wireless alternatives. Nyko aims to appease these wire-loathing ...

When the Nintendo Wii came out in 2006, the little black bar that sat on top of your TV didn’t look like much. Featured Video But without it, the Wii Remote’s motion controls didn’t work properly, ...

It seems that the Wii's sensor bar isn't entirely necessary to use the Wii remote's pointer functionality. An intrepid Wii user has posted an online video showing intermittent pointer reception using ...

There has been a little bit of a misconception about the sensor bar for the Wii. The fact it's called the "sensor bar" doesn't help, to start with. In fact, the bar doesn't sense anything, it actually ...

The Wii sensor bar is one of those essential things that modders can't help but tinker with. One Wii fan has turned an old remote control for a television into a Wii sensor bar. The sensor bar works ...

It seems that the Wii Sensor Bar runs on 7.5 volts barreling out of the Wii console itself. Therefore, an industrious young man, if he put his mind to it, could add a DC adapter from Radio Shack. That ...

A few months ago, [Shank] built what will almost certainly go down in history as the world’s smallest portable Nintendo Wii. As it turns out, the Wii motherboard is home to a lot of unnecessary ...

If you like to hook your Nintendo Wii at different locations and/or want one less cable floating around behind your TV, the wireless Wii sensor bar is definitely something to check out. The wireless ...

As we previewed yesterday, Wirelesssensorbar.com is the first company to launch what many Wii gamers have been yearning for since the Wii came out: a wireless sensor bar. The official sensor bar ...