I took apart a small switch, put a broken drill-bit into the upper part of the switch (not the electric, but the mechanical), because it is hard, so it won't break (it will be pushing the buttons). After that i cut the trigger-pad in half, soldered it (common GND!!) glued the button gums to the trigger pad, placed it to the switch as seen on the pic and glued the whole thing. It works perfectly!!!!!

How to make a PS2 Guitar Hero controller out of scratch [via engadget]

Get Hooked on expensive Wiimote decoration [Wii Fanboy]

The childlike drawings of robots and crayons makes it sting that much more considering that (for now) the game has only been slated as a Japanese release, but methinks there will be some importing just to see what in the heck this new piece of plastic is all about. I've always found that when there's a chance that breaking something could be fun, people often take that chance. Kim Phu

Mag Kid DS Features Motion Sensing Peripheral [Portable Video Gamer]

Another candidate for the useless peripheral hall of fame, the Wii Boxing Gloves actually transcend my usual criteria of being only useful in one game by being useful in only one fraction of one game. Created with Wii Sports in mind, the fingerless padded gloves feature sleeves on the top that you actually tuck the wiimote and nunchuck into, offering all the functionality of simply duct taping the controllers to your hands with none of the messy skin irritation.

If these were fully padded regulation boxing gloves I could see the need for them, as my girlfriend tends to get hyper-aggressive during a round of Wii Sports Boxing, but since the fingers are exposed she would retain full use of her knuckles and nails, leaving me short $22 on top of being beaten to a bloody, shredded pulp. Michael Fahey

Wii Boxing Glove for Wii Sports gives that Powerglove feeling [Videogamesblogger.com]

EB Games is now selling the steering wheel for the Wii separately. The wheel sells for just under $20. Not bad for a cool little controller. Though I suppose it's really just a chunk of plastic that you snap a remote into. Hmmm, maybe it's overpriced. Brian Crecente

Wii Steering Wheel [EBGames, thanks Eric]

DS Lite owners across Japan will enjoy an amazing functionality upgrade next week with the release of the DS Lite Magnet Stand, capable of transforming your handheld into the most amazing refrigerator magnet ever! The accessory is being released alongside the cooking guide Kenkou Ouen Recipe 1000 DS Kondate Zenshuu, and is meant to allow easy access to recipes for aspiring chefs while holding up whatever passes for expired pizza coupons and children's crayon scribble drawings in Japan.

I can see this being quite useful over there, with the wide variety of DS reference and learning software they have available. Unfortunately the U.S. market seems reluctant to label the handheld as anything other than a game system, and not the first generation persocom it's developing into across the sea. Michael Fahey

Nintendo encourages healthy eating with DS Lite Magnet Stand [Joystiq - Thanks Jane!]

I was walking through one of the halls when this little cherry-red number caught my eye. I do a fair amount of damage to the CDs that have the misfortune to end up in my car, so a better disc repair device than the hand-cranked jobbies seemed like a good idea. Then I saw the price: $995. That's a lot of copies of Dark Side of the Moon.

Turns out there's a big market for professional-level disc repair. All the DVD and game rental shops, all the used CD stores, all the video game stores give you five bucks off a game if you turn in eighteen, they need to at least try to get the ferret claw marks out of the poor abused discs you turn in. The "Disc-Go-Devil," as it's called, is actually one of the lower-end professional machines. DiscGoTech makes massive disc repairing monsters that can clean up to 225 discs an hour. Our scientific simulations say it would take over two thousand stoners with hardwood floors to screw up discs at that rate.

DiscGoTech [Official Site]

Odd little thing, this Solid Eye. The idea is that you slide your Playstation Portable through the center while playing certain portions of Metal Gear Acid 2 and the game will appear 3D.

I was hoping for some cool piece of hardware that I strapped to my head. I supposes I could just go buy some duct tape and use that, but it just wouldn't be the same.

The small mushroom chair may help but posture, but doesn't this catalogue pic seems unnecessarily gratuitous? Especially considering the fact the company didn't use a male model for the blue stool. The nerve.

Find the Gaming Mushroom Chair [Rakuten]

My PSP would love me even more if I replaced the Sony default foam pouch of pray-it-never-falls-from-more-than-seven-inches with this lambskin case from iSkin. Hell, the thing has a kickstand, it's like a scooter, without wheels an engine and made of lambskin. I don't see handlebars either. Fifty bones and it's yours.