For months before the Wii was released, Nintendo fans mined the patent office for some hint of what their new gaming system was going to be like. That habit has held over, and occasionally interesting things surface. For example, 22Hundred.net recently came across a UK patent filed by Nintendo that describes some nifty uses for the Wiimote. When WiiFanboy reported on the patent application, they seemed to consider one of the designs in particular to be poorly thought out: the Wii headband-thing. However, I look at that and immediately think of Johnny Lee's Virtual Reality use of the Wiimote. The concept is a little different in terms of how the components are used, but it's obvious that the Nintendo and Johnny Lee were thinking along the same lines. Which is cool, because I would love a chance to play a game based on the 3D effects shown in the Virtual Reality video. Some of the other patents include a golf club with the Wiimote in the handle (nothing new, there), but also some creative ones, like putting the Wiimote in the peddle of a bicycle. I'm not sure how practical all of them are, but they're interesting, nonetheless.