Wii Sensor Bar Works Using Heat, Claims UK Newspaper

Wow... just.. wow.
I'll be surprised (probably not really) if people try to sue Nintendo over this.
Where were is parents when he was doing this?

I do hope he gets better soon though.

Poor kid.
And this is worth being printed in a newspaper because ... ?

The sensor bars doesn't use heat, it uses infrared thingies...
The black thing on thop of the wii remote is an infrared camera, but i think that the camera also detects heat...

@jibberldd5 Welcome to the UK. Where food eats people, the economy is booming, everyone has a job and house prices only go up.

I was actually expecting this newspaper to be the sun for some reason.

That's redidiculous! I can't believe the junk that is printed these days! Everyone knows that the sensor bar uses magic to let us play our games.

My only question is where were his parents when he lit the two candles. T-T

I don't know... Nintendo knows the cautions of a heat sensor. Plus, it took 5 years to figure this out

@jibberldd5 Did you read the article?

^^ "...as the light from the candles replicates the sensor's infra red functions."

I was actually expecting this newspaper to be the sun for some reason.

Everybody hates the sun but it remains england's best selling paper.

wow, that was funny how sad it was

It's hard enough to get minor burns from tea light candles... this kid must have been trying REALLY hard to fix his apparently coal-powered Wii.

O.K so where exactly were his parents when he did this.

I'll keep this in mind next time I'm trying to fix my sensor bar by melting it.

I'm not really sure the paper needs to worry about detailing perfectly accurately the exact inner workings of the sensor bar just to report the basic news that the kid tried to use candles, which the bar can detect, and burned himself. They got the general idea and reported the basic story. It's not liked they said you actually need fire to get it to work or something litigious like that. No real harm done. Well except to the boy.

Surprised he couldn't sensor the danger in that...

Poor kid but as others have said, where were his parents when he was doing this?

That's not correct. The sensor bar uses the wonders of love and the power of happiness to work.

@Fuzzy I might have to report that, because it was too funny.

My little brother almost burned the house down once.

I didn't know that trick,but this is hardly news worthy.

Best article ever.

If this happened in America, Nintendo would lose billions in a class-action lawsuit for not warning against using candles to fix the sensor bar!!

McDonald's hot coffee anyone?

@Bass_X0 Everybody hates the sun but it remains england's best selling paper.

last i read it's the daily mail that became england's best selling paper. both are terrible.

typical reaction from the tabloids over something like this. as terrible as that incident was, the likes of the metro had to take one situation and blow it out of proportion.

The kid shouldn't be able to access matches, his parents are partially to blame for this one. He is lucky he didn't burn the house down, or in the worst case scenario, die.

Actually you could say the the sensor bar emits heat... it emits infrared radiation... which in term is can be interpreted as heat.

I will agree that it seems a little stupid to say it like the newspaper did.

I use the candle trick! Because I've lost my original sensor bar, I now use a battery powered wireless bar, and when it's out of batteries, or I don't want to waste batteries, I light up two candles instead. It's like worshipping Satan and playing video games at the same time!

Nintendo is evil because they burn children and skin tanooki's

Seriously, read TWKs statement a few times, people.... Infrared wavelengths are heat...

Damn, wish I'd picked up a copy on the Tube to college this morning! D:

I'm sorry for that poor kid, but what the hell is up with Metro? O.o First, the 3DS headache and dizziness fiasco, then this.

@jibberldd5 Learn to science. Candles emit a whole range of light from Thermal IR all the way through the visible spectrum. That's why fire both emits heat and is visible. The Wii sensor bar LEDs emit a very limited range of light between TIR and Red which is why you can't see them AND they don't emit much heat.

IT BUUUURRRNNNNSSS

Believe it or not, infrared LEDs actually run cooler and emit far more intense light than blue or white LEDs due to the lower energy potential (electron volts) require to excite the emitter. It's just that this light is invisible to human eyes. Candles have peak emissions far below the visible light spectrum, so while relatively dim in the visible, they are actually quite astonishingly bright within the infrared spectrum. Wiimotes also use a full-spectrum camera sensor, which has a filter over it to block visible light, so any wavelength of light from IR to UV could potentially excite the sensor. The IR-filter removes the possibility of interference from television sets, which primarily emit visible light.

I think that the only way that Nintendo could be sued for this is if the lawyers can prove that the candle trick was actually authorized or recommended by Nintendo, which it obviously wasn't. Just like you can't sue Nintendo for Wiimote-induced telivsion damage of injuries when the wrist strap was clearly not being utilized. That is why the safety warning is displayed every time you load a game. The candle trick would likely be classified as an unauthorized modification or device and thus nullify any claims. Parents should also teach their children not to play with fire, and hide dangerous objects like matches, lighters, knives, etc.

LOL's

@sgotsch I was replying to the newspaper article, "to remedy faulty Nintendo Wii sensor bars, which work using heat."

@TwilightPoint many there's some crazy things you can do with the sensor. this what worked for my sensor http://howtofixstuff.blogspot.ca/2013/08/how-to-fix-wii-sensor-bar.html