Zeetoo's Zeemote: the Wiimote for your cellphone

Zeetoo's Zeemote has actually been around the block a time or two before, but now it looks like this drawing board darling has grown legs. Reportedly, the Boston-area firm has secured some €4.7 million ($6.9 million) in funding from Nauta, Commonwealth Ventures and Egan Capital, which it will likely use to further develop and commercialize a wireless joystick for mobiles that looks (and sounds) strikingly similar to some other peripheral we've grown fond of. The Zeemote would purportedly communicate via Bluetooth in order to make gaming slightly more palatable on vanilla handsets, but we can't say we're champing at the bit to clutter up our precious pocket space with one of these things anytime soon.

[Via Joystiq]

[Ipaq3115 @ Jan 2nd 2008 7:10PM]

Sweet!!!

Will it work with my PPC?

[JohnTitor @ Jan 2nd 2008 11:09PM]

there's been this kinda generic bluetooth gamepad that's been around for a while (you can find it on eBay)
it works with PPCs and some regular cell phones

[nxtiak @ Jan 2nd 2008 7:15PM]

This is so stupid. More crap to carry, and now, use your cell phone with TWO HANDS! w00h00

[Chuckles McGee @ Jan 2nd 2008 7:40PM]

Thank god, I've always needed a wireless remote for my wireless phone. No longer shall I be shackled to my phone's keypad! Such modern convenience!

[t-mac @ Jan 2nd 2008 7:45PM]

Will this work with Doom? Also, will it work with Bejeweled?

[Danger mouse @ Jan 2nd 2008 8:39PM]

Some Samsung models have motion-sensors built in, with games that respond to tilting action of the handset. Quite fun to play but they need to get more games more easily available.

[RAD Moose @ Jan 3rd 2008 12:36AM]

There are some "motion" games available for various VZW handsets. They use the camera to sent motion/direction to play games like a Marble Madness varient. It doesn't work well in an overly lit or extremely dark area where it can't tell if the phone is moving.

Anyways.. it only requires your cell phone and not the Bluechuk or the Nuntooth or whatever they are calling this thing this week.

[ck @ Jan 3rd 2008 2:49AM]

There's also a motion sensor in the Nokia N95.

http://thenokiablog.com/2007/10/31/video-nokia-n95-accelerometer-demonstration/

[john @ Jan 2nd 2008 8:49PM]

they should incorporate it into a blue tooth headset so you wont have to carry extra stuff with you, and you alway have your headset with you.

[Jenny Moore @ Jan 3rd 2008 3:18AM]

Shouldn't it be "chomping at the bit", not champing?

Other than that, I think this is a bit unnecessary!!

[Ruckuz @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:06AM]

These are already pretty standard-issue in Japan. You can play various ho-hum games, like one where you guide Crash Bandicoot as he falls through the sky with a parachute. Meh.

And no, champing at the bit is correct.