New charger sends power to batteries through Wii Remote jackets

by JC Fletcher { Sep 18th 2008 at 7:11PM }

Teknocreations has unveiled their InCharge battery pack and charge stand for Wiimotes. The new stand uses a set of lithium polymer batteries, which, according to the press release, are half as heavy as other rechargeables and work over hundreds of charges. Each charge provides 25 hours of gameplay. The stand can charge two Wiimotes side-by-side.

But all of that is just a leadup to the real magic trick that separates this thing from other chargers: it charges without any metal contacts, and will charge a battery through a silicone cover. If you actually use your Wii Remote Jackets, you can leave them on when you dock your Wiimotes to charge. That is really, really cool. No word on whether or not this charger will melt your controllers.

Tags: charger, incharge, jacket, teknocreations

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Aaron @ Sep 18th 2008 7:27PM

I want a product that charges my existing rechargeable AA batteries from the Wiimote's 'nunchuck' port.

How 'bout it, science?

Leon @ Sep 18th 2008 7:32PM

I wish this came out two weeks ago before I bought the Nyko one.

Garu @ Sep 18th 2008 8:05PM

I always thing about getting something like this, but I think I'll hold off until after Wii Sports Resort comes out and we see how these work with the Wii MotionPlus adapter. Maybe you just have to remove it, or maybe they will have new charging stations where you don't need to? I'll wait and see.

Roddie @ Sep 18th 2008 8:09PM

Seriously, how does that work?

bungle @ Sep 18th 2008 9:36PM

Seriously, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_coupling

sn1per @ Sep 18th 2008 10:25PM

Hey, I sent you guys a link about this back in the dark days when "wii fanboy staff' was writing all your articles for you, where's my credit???

jk, I still love you NWF.

Bob Saget @ Sep 19th 2008 9:39AM

I had a toothbrush that did this once. I thought it was cool, because the brush part was totally waterproof, even though it was electric and had a battery inside. But then I got a waterpik sprayer thing, which was just so insanely superior that I let the toothbrush get moldy and gross. So I donated it to a thrift shop. It was cool because you can just buy new brush heads for it.

TomSkib @ Sep 19th 2008 10:14AM

I just got one of those tooth brushes this past Christmas. I love it. Only $18 too!

Back to the real topic: That is cool. Any word on the price?

Penny @ Sep 19th 2008 3:53PM

I got one earlier this month. It works great. Saving money on those batteries :D

Matt @ Sep 20th 2008 1:06AM

I've been very happy with my Nyko charger, but I was disappointed that I had to take off the 4 covers that I had for all of my remotes in order to charge them. I ended up keeping the covers off them completely out of convenience which ended up being a waste of money. I too would like to see something that will allow me to re-charge my own rechargeable batteries as well, but I'm content with the lithium batteries thus far.

Will @ Sep 22nd 2008 11:18PM

It is somewhat strange, I thought that this article would be about the Nintendo-Sanyo deal to make official rechargeable batteries and charger for the Wii Remotes using Eneloop technology in the battery cells. This is something different. http://www.sanyo.com/news/2008/07/24-1en.html The URL for that listed before this sentence.