📡️ Mixed Technology Collection

Perhaps the strangest page I’ve done so far. Here, I have to catalog all the weirdest technology, and various accessories, that I own, for future reference, realize how much rubbish I have, and perhaps guarantee myself a chance to gain world control.

Input HID

HID is short for Human Interface Device, an umbrella term that is a computer device that takes data input from users, or returns something as output. This includes keyboards, remote controls, mice, touchscreens, gamepads and joysticks, and so on, and that’s what I need this section for.

Technically, the classification of HID, for output devices, also includes monitors, speakers, headphones, and all of these things; However, I have never seriously seen this term used to describe them too, so this is not the case.
On the other hand, for input devices there is perhaps a need to group them under a single category, when collecting them, given that there are many promiscuous ones, which are in between: keyboards with touchpads, touchpads with keyboards, controllers for game with keyboard, mouse with analog sticks, remote controls that act as gyroscopic mice…

Various keyboards

I have several keyboards: some cannibalized, some almost destroyed, some lived but a little less, some that I adore, some that are gathering dust and some that are disgusting. I’ll have to put them all here.

Wii Remotes

Who doesn’t have Wii Remotes at home? Everyone must have. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Remote)

Wii MotionPlus INSIDE

I have the red one there, RVL-036; to write and take photos.

Advanced Motion Technology Built-In (GameStop)

I’m the loser who has the GameStop WiiMote clone (luckily, only one; black). The keys (except B) — as well as the 4 LEDs — all have a horrible square shape turned 45° with slightly rounded corners, which makes them a bit strange and annoying to press, and all have a transparent finish (except POWER and the directional cross). The glossy finish on the front makes sense, combining with the infrared window, but it is ugly as well as a magnet for fingerprints. Furthermore, it has a hatch-finished edge which only worsens the aesthetics further, and the surface is formed as 3 trapezoidal planes which join towards the center with 3 differences in level which can be perceived towards the center by touch and against the light. For the rest, excluding the battery compartment whose plastic is finished with a leather texture, it doesn’t look particularly fancy. Until you notice that:

• The POWER, HOME, — and + buttons are slightly clickier than the originals.
• The A, 1 and 2 keys are slightly softer than the originals.
• The HOME button is not perfectly centered vertically in the housing, and with your finger you can feel a difference in height when pressed.
• The B button is decidedly tougher than the original, so much so that it is more difficult to press in the direction opposite to the groove, and is particularly ugly, with a large scratched finish on the plastic.
• The d-pad is shaped like 4 split pieces, although fortunately they are internally a single piece of plastic held on a pin, but still horrible to look at, touch, and hear.
• At least on my unit, the 1 button is pretty much sunken, and doesn’t always pick up inputs; but it had already been doing this since it was new.
• The raised plastic dots, which indicate the number of each LED by touch, are very obvious to the eye and excessively to the touch, compared to Nintendo remote controls.

The shockproof rubber cover, however, is copied quite well from the original one, with the only differences appearing to be the elimination of all the writing (not just the Nintendo logo), the slightly worse cleanliness of the cuts, and the average worse quality of the material . The latter feels a bit strange to the touch, and although it is black, light passes through it causing a yellowish halo.

Munnizza

These would be mixed things that should already be pulped; some parts even useless without something else that is no longer there.

…Works in progress; they will be completed we don’t know when!