Building sophisticated educational tools out of cheap parts, Johnny Lee demos his cool Wii Remote hacks, which turn the $40 video game controller into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.
To understand Johnny Lee, just take a look at his website. Aside from his Wii Remote hacks — voted the #1 tech demo of all time by Digg — you can see all the other places his mind has turned: typography, photography, urban renewal … to say nothing of his interesting sideline in Little Great Ideas, like the hypnotic “___ will ___ you.”
Since earning his PhD from the the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he’s joined the team at Microsoft responsible for Project Natal, a controller-free motion sensing device for the Xbox 360.
