…might just be based on the Nin­tendo Wii?

Check out Johnny Chung Lee’s Wii Projects and count how many times you find your­self say­ing “wow.” And if you own a Wii, see if you don’t want to try to doing all of these things your­self. I know I do.

Unin­tended con­se­quences are often the most inter­est­ing ones. As I watched these videos, I found myself think­ing about Allan Kleiman’s work at the Old Bridge Pub­lic Library, using the Wii to intro­duce seniors to tech­nol­ogy, won­der­ing if this type of setup would work bet­ter for those folks who have trou­ble using a com­puter mouse.

The head track­ing video is really inter­est­ing, too, as it might be a pre­cur­sor to a home ver­sion of The Cave. Imag­ine being able to walk into a book on your videogame con­sole (Hotel Dusk for the Wii, any­one?). 3D gam­ing — and the lit­era­cies that would come with it — might be much closer than we think.

I really want some time to play with this stuff! [Thanks, Clare!]