Nintendo’s got a new patent out there, and it’s sort of weird. It’s a horseshoe, basically, with some buttons it to augment an accelerometer, gyrometer, temperature sensor and load sensor. First noticed by NeoGAF user Rosti (via IGN), the natural assumption would be that this has something to do with the company’s upcoming new console, codenamed NX, but I wouldn’t be so sure. That thing is well on its way towards an announcement, and Nintendo has made it clear that it has some other irons in the fire when it comes to fitness and “quality of life” This patent describes the device as a training peripheral, with drawings of exercise showing it might be used. So it’s pretty clear that Nintendo is once again casting its eyes in that direction, though in what manner we can’t be quite sure.

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