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Nyko Wireless Sensor Bar
Despite the Wii’s wireless controllers, there are still quite a few chords involved. There are the standard power and AV cables, nunchuks, and if you have them, the classic controllers. Add in the 11-foot-long, spaghetti chord of your sensor bar, and you have quite a mess.  Sweet tube. Hey, these things are important, dammit. According to Nyko, their sensor bar is “perfect for larger and wall-mounted TVs” because of its range. Like I said before, the standard sensor bar has an insanely long chord and could reach the top of most wall-mounted TVs anyway. But then you’d have that chord going up the wall, and, well, that’s just tacky.  Man, that chord there is just so ... white trash. For those of us that are too used to turning off the Wii and walking away, it features an alarm that will go off either one hour or two hours after you’re done playing. The sensor bar automatically shuts itself off after the alarm goes off for five minutes. (I’m not sure who would let it go for five minutes without doing something about it, the alarm is annoying as hell.) At first, I thought it would require some kind of set up before use – like syncing up a Wii-mote. Not at all. This thing is incredibly easy to use and requires no set up whatsoever. Just turn it on within 25 feet of your Wii, and it’s good to go. In comparing the two sensor bars, I didn’t really notice any difference. The wireless sensor bar works just as well as the one that came with your Wii. It’s most apparent downfall is the battery use – the standard sensor bar obviously requires no batteries. The good news is, you won’t have to replace the batteries for a while; it has 30 hours of life (depending on how addicted you are to your Wii, of course). What may be the greatest part about Nyko’s sensor bar is the fact that it’s a suitable replacement if you lose your standard one. Of course, it seems Nyko currently holds the monopoly on individually-sold sensor bars, so you don’t have much of a choice anyway.  Nyko's wireless sensor bar. Who needs chords anyway? If chords are the bane of your gaming life, or you don’t want to commit a “design don’t” by having your standard sensor bar on top of your wall-mounted TV, Nyko’s wireless sensor bar is your savior. David Baldwin, in addition to writing for Binary Culture, once drank Chinese Coca Cola despite it not being "The Real Thing." |
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