Before I purchased my Nintendo Wii I read all of the horror stories about people throwing their Wii-motes through thier TV’s and such and I knew that I really didn’t want to be replacing my TV. After a few games with the family I decided that the wrist straps were not only flimsy, but also they took to long to take off and put on and I came up with this cheap and effective solution.

As you can see I simply used a small key-ring that attaches to the wii-mote with a larger key-ring attached to a stretchable wrist strap. The strechable wrist straps are available at walmart or you can probably obtain one from any automotive store. The cost of the key-ring with wrist strap was under $2 and makes life a lot easier when playing games where you are constantly handing off your wii-mote to the next player, it is also stronger than the original wrist strap that came with the initial shippments.

This is a great video of my youngest once again showing her stuff on Nintendo Wii Boxing. Her uncle has only been playing Nintendo (video games) for 22 years, where my daughter chimes in with about 2 years of video game experience. She does go all out and holds back nothing. It was close match, but close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and dancing. This video as of 12/26/06 has claimed the following awards from youtube

#8 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Video Games - All
#7 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Video Games - English
#27 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Video Games - All
#19 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Video Games - English
#85 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Video Games - All

Well the buzz of the morning is that the weather or forcast channel has been released to Wii users. Unfortunatley I can not get home to confirm this news. Apparently our holiday present from Nintendo could infact be the Opera internet browser. According to Opera’s home page the internet channel is to be released on December 22nd and I don’t think people will get any happier, although it reads to be a trial version so I guess we will see what happens. Read more information here on Opera’s website.