There has been a little bit of a misconception about the sensor bar for the Wii. The fact it's called the "sensor bar" doesn't help, to start with. In fact, the bar doesn't sense anything, it ...

Having experienced quite a bit of trouble getting the Nintendo Wii remotes to work reliably with his home theater projector, [Sprite_TM] designed his own sensor bar replacement. If you’re not… ...

Instead of the Wii, this sensor bar gets its power from batteries (Nyko claims that the bar can last up to 30 hours on four AA cells, and includes a set of alkaline batteries in the package).

The official Wii Sensor Bar is also a little weak--the console's manual states that it is most effective when a user is no more than 8 feet away, and it begins to get really jittery beyond 20-feet.

I circled the sensor bar on the picture so you can make it out, but most people don't even know it's there when I show them the Wii. The cable is a good length, but I still wish it was longer.

That's what these guys did, ripping the Wii's sensor bar apart to find nothing more than a couple of IR transmitters, meaning that the Sensor Bar does very little sensing and most of the Wii's ...

It even has an integrated “Sensor Bar” so you can use real Wii Remotes with it. It might not be the prettiest portable console conversion we’ve ever seen, but it certainly ranks up there as ...

Leave it to third party manufacturers to devise a Wii sensor bar that’s both wireless and cheap-looking. No doubt easy to manufacture—since you can replace your Wii sensor bar with candles ...

This clever hack projects infrared dots onto the wall so your Wiimotes work without the Wii IR sensor bar. If you're unfamiliar with the setup of the Wiimote, the design is simple.

You can get a wireless Wii sensor bar from Nintendo, or you can deal with the wired one that includes several feet of cord, until now, those two options, and a couple of candles were more or less ...

Compared to the official sensor bar the Wireless Sensor Bar looks very homebrew, probably because it is. The housing is significantly larger in every dimension, about 13-inches long, an inch tall ...

A company representative explained that the Wii sensor bar is affected by head-on exposure to sunlight, which could cause “some interference”. But he likened it to not being able to see a TV ...