A bit of a techie post this but some good news is that the latest version of WiimoteLib has been released and it now includes support for the Wii Balance Board.
For those of you not familiar with WiimoteLib, it's basically a .Net library that allows you to use your Nintendo Wii Remote with any bluetooth enabled laptop or PC running Windows. Now some folk may wonder why on earth you'd actually want to do that. Well, just because you can, is one reason but there are actually some fun and innovative alternative uses for the Wiimote, and my current favourite is BlueTunes.
BlueTunes allows you to control music players (Windows Media Player, iTunes, Winamp to name a few) with your Wiimote by assigning player functions to various buttons or even using motion control e.g. moving the Wiimote left or right to skip tracks, similar to the shake control in the latest Sony Ericsson Walkman mobiles. So now, if you use your PC to stream music at home you can control it without getting off the couch - pretty cool.
A little while back I posted an entry about the two German researchers who used a Wii Balance Board to surf Google Earth. They had to write their own library for this but now that WiimoteLib supports the Wii Board it's only a matter of time before we start to see some really wacky uses for the board so watch this space.
Update: turns out there was a bug in the Wii Balance Board support for v1.5 but this has now been fixed in v1.5.1.