Will Wii get down to business?

Dennis Howlett wrote about the work done by a couple of engineers at Colgate-Palmolive who setup as system for....

"... using a Wiimote in an SAP BusinessWarehouse project environment by two or more people as compared with using a mouse in a sequential manner. It may sound trite and the engineers are not really sure if there’s a commercial use. But by hooking the concept of consumery fun to a serious business application, they have shown the potential to change perceptions about how easy or hard it is to use enterprise software."

You need to check out the video to understand why it's so interesting. The hackers are getting closer to the vision of Minority Report every day. Combine Jeff Han's Multi-touch systems with a future generation of Wiimote-control gloves and you're practically there.

A few weeks ago I was telling a friend of mine about the fun I had at Christmas playing Wii Sports with the family. I realized afterwards that I'd spent most of my time talking about the control and not the actual games. Last week he told me he was going to buy a Wii, his first game console. Which goes to prove a point Seth Godin reiterates ad nauseam - great marketing is great storytelling. And the 3D controller of Nintendo's new system generates far more conversations than the subject of polygons and frame rates.

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