Nintendo has filed patent (both US and Japanese patent applications were found in the European Patent Office Web site) for a number of new motion sensing Wii applications that focus on moving the Wiimote into specialized controllers (think guns), toys (like the teddy bear pictured above) and even into devices as typically far from the stationary console as a bike or a skateboard.

If your read the patent application (available here) you’ll find that much of the discussion is based upon gun type controllers (for first person shooters), as well as joysticks and steering wheels, but the breadth of devices for “docking” the Wiimote in here is pretty broad, and may hint as some motion controlled devices we’ll see in the not so distant future. We believe that toys (such as the teddy bear) are one of the next big things for motion sensing as they can help provide interfaces to games and online services for the pre-school (and pre-reading) crowd in a way that more complicated interface devices can’t.

Via New Scientist No Escape dvdrip

and Register Hardware

Note: The patent was filed in 2006/2007, the publication of the application occurred in January