Everyone has a few old GameCube controllers laying around. Rather than throwing out the cash one of those Classic Controllers for your Wii in order to play some of that retro content, why not give this hack a try instead?

It allows you to convert ancient Cube controllers into Wii-ready peripherals. The hack does require the purchase of a PIC18F4520 microcontroller, though. Which may just offset the price of the hack in the first price. Still, the video is intriguing at least.

Nintendo and their Wiimote may have opened the floodgates for motion-sensitive gaming, but a company called Sixense might have leapfrogged the field with their system called TrueMotion 3D. The tech doesn’t rely solely on an accelerometer like most devices, it uses a magnetic field to track both of your hand’s positions in 3D space. Kind of cool.

The refresh rate is an amazing ten milliseconds and they boast accuracy up to a millimeter. Developers, including Activision and EA, have begun to show interest. If you need more convincing, check out the tech demo below:

Anticipating not being able to find a Wii for your loved one this holiday season? Then appease them with a tiny Wiimote that projects an image from Super Mario Kart when its button is pushed. The 2.25-inch replica is imported from Japan and projects one of six different Mario Mart images. They are available here for $6. And no, your loved one will never forgive you if you get them this in lieu of an actual Wii.

Nintendo has a new music game called Wii Music. To play you use the Wiimote, Nunchuk, and Balance Board. Don’t worry if you can’t keep the beat, Wii Music will translate all your fumbling into tunes that sound good. You won’t see any messages popping up asking if you’re "tone deaf." The game will simply make you look like a musical genius.

There are multiple options to play a lot of different instruments, such as the violin, saxophone, guitar, drums, and you can even conduct an orchestra. Your performance can be recorded for play back.

This doesn’t seem like the most interesting game, but it’s a vast improvement over the Beamz game that used lasers, as seen in the lame commercial video below.

A relatively inexpensive accessory for the Wiiheads is this box (which comes in black or white) and is used to store your nunchuck combos. The fun part is the spring action to get at your Wiimote faster. For $19 everyone can be a geek and get one.