Nintendo is sitting on a huge mountain of success at the moment (which is just a huge mound of cash). Things weren’t always so peachy with Nintendo. There have been a numerous amount of failures through the years at Mario’s company. Easily Nintendo’s best failure was the Power Glove. This device was pretty much the Wii remote only about 20 years before its’ time.

The problem with the Power Glove was the clunkiness of the controls, and lack of game support. If you think having a thin sensor bar for your Nintendo Wii is bad enough, the Power Glove had to have two sensors on your TV that would continually fall off. Of course the idea of the Power Glove was mind blowing though. You could control a video game just by moving your hand. You only had to wear a glove that nearly went up to your elbow, and had about 50 million buttons to keep track of.

What really made the Power Glove truly great was the 1980’s movie classic, The Wizard…a.k.a ‘feature length Nintendo Ad’.

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It’s hard to imagine what the next big jump for video game technology could be. With the increased graphical quality of the PS3 and Xbox 360, and motion controls of the Wii, the next advancement will have to be down right impressive. Mind control is an idea that could definitely give the boost video games need.

T3 has come up with what the Wii 2.0 could potentially offer for gamers. Instead of having to utilize a clunky controller, the game could read your thoughts and perform the actions on screen. If your scatter brained like me, then the idea might seem backwards. Because even when I play video games, my mind can wonder to all sorts of things.

I’m not sure what’s more amazing, the idea that T3 came up with, or the time they took to actually create some concept photos behind the idea.

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For gamers there’s no cool training montages like boxing with the Rocky movies. There’s never really any inspirational preparation. If there is preparation, it’s usually guzzling down energy drinks so we can stay awake to get further in our games. Xtensor is looking to change that, with their new Game Hand Exerciser. It’s a pretty easy exercise that will help with your hand coordination and reflexes. Just strap it on to all of your fingers, and extend out, and back in. This will help with muscle memory, and give you that upper hand against all the n00bs out there. ThinkGeek, has it available for $39.99.

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Getting the family around the TV, to engage in some Wii bowling can be a fun filled activity. In fact, multi-player fun is one of the strongest suits of the Wii, since its’ release. Now another fun activity looks to be making its way to the Nintendo system.

Pole Dancing, is an activity that used to be limited to gentlemen’s clubs. But recently, through Carmen Electra’s influence and companies like Peekaboo Pole Dancing , it’s really starting to become a reputable workout routine. Peekaboo is looking for some creative licensing help, as it’s wanting to bring the up-and-coming workout to the Wii. As of now no one has picked up on it, but I’m sure someone out there is desperate enough.

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