The Nintendo Wii has recently won the BAFTA for innovation and has also won several other awards throughout the course of the year. The Wii remote has definitely taken both technolgy and the idea from earlier forms, such as the Nintendo's light gun for duck hunt, Power Glove and also from arcade games (using a gun to shoot rather than a controller, using a platform for a skateboard/snowboard/ using a plastic sword to swing rather than a controller).
Its interesting to see that the Wii is regarded as innovation considering the ideas are years old. In this instance the innvovation has been to take such a technology and apply it to something that could be sold on a huge scale, and that would appeal to the user.
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