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December 22, 2006

by Chris Nuttall
Chris Nuttall

Operatic browsing comes to the Wii

Wiinet There is a new way of web surfing from today with Opera introducing its browser for the Nintendo Wii.
Using the motion-sensing Wii Remote controller, it’s possible to scroll pages with a wave of the hand and there’s a button to zoom in on those that are hard to view on the TV from a distance.
Some of the Wii’s channels were not available at launch, and the News one still appears inaccessible. But The Weather Channel showed up this week and the free Opera download creates the Internet Channel.
Opera has lost out to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox in the PC browser wars, but it is carving a useful niche for itself with Nintendo and as a browser on mobile phones.
Chris Nuttall, San Francisco

December 22nd, 2006 in Games, Internet | Permalink

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