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For those wondering if the Blendtec blender could handle the Wiimote, look no furthur than Tom Dickson's latest segment. Continue reading to watch.

You know the drill. Gadgets, blenders, blending, poisonous smoke. Think two Wii Remotes can withstand the fury of a Blendtec blender?

Nintendo's all-new Wii Nintendo Channel offers game information, DS downloads, and even preview trailers. Continue reading for a video overview. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The trailers aren't HD trailers like you get on the Xbox 360 Marketplace. It's more like grainy YouTube videos before YouTube raised the quality of their videos. You can pause, and you can skip around in the video by hitting B.

Speed Racer is essentially a "unique racing game experience developed for the Wii in part by the movie directing duo, the Wachowski brothers." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The game is designed as a game that players can build their own racing track, and it also has a "choose-your-own-adventure" aspect that presents the experience as a series of choices that the player must make in gameplay.

Hacking the Wiimote is nothing new, but combining the controller's technology with robotics takes modding to a whole new level, as these examples prove. Continue reading to see them all. Click here for first picture in gallery.

This followup to the NES-controlled espresso machine builds upon that creation, and adds Wii Nunchuck functionality. Aside from the controller, it consists of "fancy-pants Rancilio Silvia espresso machine, the multi-purpose Arduino micro-controller, and some seriously high-level hacking." Video after the break. Click here for one more picture.

The typically straight-up espresso maker is now controlled electronically, allowing integration of a calendar, sleep timer, wake-up alarm, and temperature regulation

Nintendo offered this Wii Super Famicom Classic Controller to members of "Club Nintendo" in Japan and it's supposedly extremely rare. No word yet on US availability. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Just days after hearing that a Wii-white GameCube controller was headed there soon, a lucky, lucky member of Club Nintendo has unboxed his limited edition Wii Super Famicom Classic Controller. Yep, this token of nostalgia that we heard about way back in November of last year has finally arrived in the Land of the Rising Sun

Morpheon Mods is back at it, and this time he's put an amazing Super Mario Galaxy Wii mod on eBay, with a portion of the proceeds going to charity. Auction page. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The LEDs are a nice touch, especially the ones in the back-lit marquee, and we approve of the various sounds they've rigged to the console. We also like the twinkling stars effect -- simply awesome

Why wait for Nintendo to release new Wii colors when you can build your own? That's exactly what Morpheon has done, starting with the incredible Metroid-inspired creation above. Continue reading for a rundown of our favorites -- some have been featured here before. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Sure, it may not be the first Wii hack, but this person managed to "figured out a way to take Virtual Console titles and play them on another Wii." Video after the break.

The good news? There's a video -- which many aren't hesitating to blast with "fake!" -- of the trick posted after the jump

According to sources at MTV Networks, Microsoft is currently designing a Wiimote-style controller for the Xbox 360 that "will also receive signal from an LED sensor bar (like the Wii), but one-ups the Wiimote by having a microphone on board for Xbox Live chat."

He doesn't have many other solid points of data—there are guesses about it using the standard rechargeable battery pack and what colors it will have—but he does think the target date of late '08 looks very likely