Magnetic fields = bad (Score 1)

The joy of the WII controller is that it uses only infrared light, which to my knowledge, has never been shown to be harmful to humans. The idea that all sorts of little children playing video games will endure hours of magnetic field influence on their bodies should scare the Slashdot population. There are numerous cases where magnetic fields emminating from electric lines are blamed for increases in cancer rates, especially amongst children. Exposing children to more magnetic fields is probably a really bad idea. There's another problem of course with magnetic fields, which is that they degrade quickly at the edges. This can lead to significant problems with game play. Having worked on virtual reality systems, I'd experience this often. The key thing is that the user must remain within the field. Though it is a field, so it naurally curves and is inconsistent. This can really hamper multi-player ability since keeping the magnetic field weak not to interfere with other electronics, will limit the size of the field. The other solution is of course to increase the strength of the fields, which could lead to other problems like those mentioned above. This is not new technology in any way, neither is it particularly innovative; no news. That they'd create a controller that is potentially harmful to the audience they're serving, well that's not something I can support.